Do join us for 1st @kingsioppn.bsky.social NREG meeting of the academic year on the complex/fascinating topic of visual snow All welcome - Teams link in this link 👍 www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/events

…and those bloody Anglo Saxons, Beaker Folk etc😆 youtu.be/_kkOHtniTts?...

Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in ‪@Nature.com‬: 🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0 🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +

@ammaralchalabi.bsky.social isn’t prone to hyperbole, so this seems big/great news & progress for this devastating disease💪🏻 Suspect I’m not alone in growing skeptical of such omics (esp machine learning) papers with findings that fail to replicate/deliver clinical impact Hopefully this different🤞

Glow-in-the-Dark Succulents Could Be the Future of Ambient Lighting gizmodo.com/glow-in-the-...

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

Hi everyone! I’m researching how people with functional seizures understand & cope with their condition. If you're 18+, UK-based, diagnosed by neurologist (no additional epilepsy), please take 20-30 mins to complete this survey: nclpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #functionalseizure#fnd

Stoffel and Sojka demonstrated that respiratory sensitivity was lower for patients with functional neurological disorders, along with reduced interoceptive sensibility but intact metacognition, compared to healthy controls. Full paper buff.ly/yXCH1WS

Great thread from @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social on a paper that took a lot of effort from a superb team to wrestle the evidence and many complexities of the relation between FND and migraine into shape! 👏👏💪🏻💪🏻

Great work by veronica the app is now available - Mementum by cogniss

All welcome to this tomorrow (Tues) 1-2pm UK time….Sneak preview of ‘hot off the press’ results from very interesting trial of EMDR for FND👌👌 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/emdr-...

Donald Quixote, tilting at windmills

Glastonbury (& BBC’s amazing coverage) always such a midsummer English joy I particularly love the random celeb appearances like this from Peter Capaldi with Franz Ferdinand A thread of some my favourite bits from this and past years that are too good not to share…… www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

This feels like a ‘rigid’ interpretation of the data I’d hazard a guess that ‘might be able to reduce this rigidity’ would be a more appropriate summary I also wonder what people with autism make of ‘relieves various autistic traits’….

Your genome is not a blueprint. A thread about misleading metaphors in science communication. 🧬🧪 1/n

🧠 Study exploring new FND treatment! We’re exploring patient views on Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) for #FND rehab. ✅ 18+ ✅ Diagnosed w/ motor FND (e.g. weakness, tremor) 📝 10-min survey and educational video: qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_... 📎 Poster below #FNDresearch #BCI

Our new paper is out in BP:GOS. A large team including @lillianwieder.bsky.social‬, @susannahpick.bsky.social‬, ‪@sunjeevkamboj.bsky.social‬. We found that #dissociation can be reliably induced using a range of methods and drugs, most notably #mirror-gazing and #ketamine. t.ly/qOme3 t.ly/cK-YI

I am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘A neural basis for distinguishing between imagination and reality’ with Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps... a thread 🧵

"Inside FND" - a new short film about FND A film that draws on evidence from patients, clinicians and research to counter common misconceptions about Functional Neurological Disorder (FND). 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDAv...

Time to get the facts straight. 🙌 Thanks @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social, Caoimhe McLaughlin and Anna Ross, and the ETUDE team for bringing this to life.

So proud of my neuropsychiatry colleagues at @kingsioppn.bsky.social It’s so inspiring working with such talented people …& an amazing privilege to discuss/chew over the mysteries of the brain &mind with them I’ll build a thread here with some of their broad & brilliant outputs that need sharing👇

It's not too late to register for the FND Society "Functional Seizures and Epilepsy" course - Jun 13-14. In-person and online places available. www.fndsociety.org/fnd-educatio.... FNDS members - $170 Trainee members - $50 Trainee members (virtual) - $0!

📣All welcome today 1pm UK time for what will be excellent talk from a world expert respiratory physio on diagnosing & treating ‘breathing pattern disorder’ (aka ‘dysfunctional breathing’) & can be argued=‘functional’ breathlessness. Teams link👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-p...

We made a page for people with intellectual disability and FND, and their carers including: ✅ easy read factsheet for functional seizures ✅ easy read factsheet for FND in general neurosymptoms.org/en/treatment... Thanks to Katy Morton, Jane Stuart and @isobel-anne.bsky.social for leading these

Always encouraging when your research resonates with researchers you admire. Please read this excellent commentary on our paper - ‘Beyond a syndrome: a mechanism for #depression in #Parkinson’s disease.’ academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...

New results! Different anesthetics, same result: unconsciousness by shifting brainwave phase MIT study finds that an easily measurable brain wave shift may be a universal marker of unconsciousness under anesthesia picower.mit.edu/news/differe... #neuroscience

This is a really excellent article on the intersecting histories of FND and psychoanalysis - and the damage still ongoing. FND defies simple explanations and reductionism Thank you @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social for writing (and the kind mention) and @fndireland.bsky.social for sharing!

New from Jennifer Foley and me: How could CBT for psychosis be usefully applied to psychosis in Parkinson's disease? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Superb free day of talks on psychedelics this Friday…don’t miss out courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/hen...

We've just sent out our May newsletter to members. Best of the journals, BNPA news, neuropsychiatry events, narrative neurology, and neuropsychiatry in the media, are all featured. If you've not clicked on a BNPA newsletter for a while, check your filter folders to ensure you've not missed it.

Neuropsychiatry for Clinical Psychologists and Neuropsychologists training day. Fri 4 July, Central London. Free for BNPA members. Not a member? You can register for the training day below and then join the BNPA for £70 to attend www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

Neuropsychology for Physicians (and Psychologists Who Need a Refresher) Upcoming training. Mark your diaries. 9am-12pm Wed 8th October. Online. Part 1 of our online course providing a grounding in neuropsychology and neuropsychological disorders. Registration will open soon!

This open-label pilot study evaluated the safety & feasibility of psilocybin therapy in people w/ Parkinson’s disease. Psilocybin was well tolerated & associated w/ improvements in mood, motor & non-motor symptoms, & cognitive performance www.nature.com/artic...

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📣Fantastic FND Society course on diagnostics, aetiology & Mx of functional seizures+ epilepsy 13-14 June online (or in person Boston USA!) 👌👌 @fndsociety.bsky.social @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social @alancarson15.bsky.social @mahyog.bsky.social @davidlewisperez.bsky.social @fndportal.bsky.social

so, so excited to share our new theory which endeavours to answer why depression and poor metabolic health go hand-in-hand: "An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health" 💪🧠🔋 @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

We've designed healthcare systems around physical illness, yet #delirium reminds us that the mind and body are inseparable. What might truly integrated care look like?

Final chance!!!

Another cracking & excoriating piece from @masudhusain.bsky.social on academia’s woes 🎯 bang on target again nailing problems we all experience and grumble about - but haven’t formulated so well, or found the confidence to speak out about 👏👏💪🏻💪🏻 academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵

If you'd like to hear more about neurotech approaches for neuropsychiatric disorders then be sure to register for our Maudsley Neurotechnology Conference on May 15th! estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-...

It was an absolute pleasure to be interviewed by @kingshealth.bsky.social about our BRAVE-FND study exploring the use of BCIs and VR for rehabilitation in FND www.kingshealthpartners.org/latest/explo...

This is beautiful work and super important for theorising about consciousness! "...we demonstrate the persistence of learning, semantic processing, and online prediction in individuals under general anesthesia-induced loss of consciousness."

Are we getting closer to noninvasive temporal interference stimulation instead of DBS? Maybe? DBS has been amazing; as we seek citius, altius, fortius; the swifter, higher and stronger approaches, we realize that the mountain is quite steep. TIS modulated beta oscillations deep in the human brain.

go.bsky.app/VH9yDTA Neuropsychiatry starter pack - please suggest more people to add If not on here yet let’s all try & bring them over!

📣Neurology starter pack!📣👇👇

Cracking tongue-in-cheek paper from Matt Butler & colleagues on the behavioural neuroscience of, inc evolutionary perspectives on, football fandom👏👏 www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

The economic evaluation of the Physio4FMD trial was finally published today! www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/... @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social

I’ve written in my #preConceived Substack newsletter about my experience attending @bnpa.bsky.social 38th Annual Neuropsychiatry Conference Check out the link ⬇️ drchrissyjayarajah.substack.com/p/38th-bnpa-...