Brilliant 3 part BBC documentary on the mind blowing & tragic case of Megan Bhari that’s presented as a case of Factitious or Induced Illness (FII) = Munchausen’s by proxy = medical abuse It’s almost impossible to imagine that a parent could do this to their child www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

What are the preferences of novel in silico and in vivo agents that aren't directly engineered toward a specific set of behaviors? An example, from the world of Lenia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenia) - here's our #preprint on agnosiophobia (avoidance of the unknown): arxiv.org/abs/2605.30708

We are looking for volunteers with experience of Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) presentations in A&E settings to contribute to a BPS study day on FND. If you are interested in getting involved, please submit your interest via the Microsoft Form: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

📣Small, but mighty, new paper: Electronic health record study of FND led by the brilliant @liviaasan.bsky.social 👌👌👏👏 Largest study to date of real world data on the basics of FND 👇

Just over 4 weeks left until the @FNDSociety 2026 Baltimore meeting! zurl.co/qqGFg If your budget can stretch, PLEASE consider booking the conference hotel. zurl.co/SDhZS Doing so will help make the meeting a financial success. Thank you!

Delighted to report our study on sensory symptoms has been published in @braincomms.bsky.social - @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social, Prof. Mark Edwards, Dr. Jan Coebergh, @roryhigginsphysio.bsky.social, @gnielsenphysio.bsky.social academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

Milestone for FND care in Germany: first guideline on functional motor disorder, published by German Neurol. Society. I contributed to comorbidities, pharmacotherapy & placebo/nocebo. Hope it's a valuable resource for clinicians & support people living with FND. register.awmf.org/de/leitlinie...

These two papers in Lancet Psychiatry about placebo/nocebo in practice and in trials are very worth reading. Be mindful about expectation in your patients/yourself, and critical even with RCTs. I hope reporting on placebo conditions, treatment expectations and blinding success improves steadily!!

sign o the times

Take 5 minutes to view this video from teenager Molly's powerful speech on living with #FND to TD's and Senators in Leinster House on April 30th, 2026, which received a standing ovation. Share Molly's voice to change our healthcare system. 💚🧡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NamW... @fndportal.bsky.social

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📄Recent Research Highlight 📖Functional Neurological Disorder: State-of-the-Art Advances Published in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences https://loom.ly/Qzhao3s

📢Check out this recent interview with Dr. David Perez and NPR about a musician with FND. https://loom.ly/RKqGKSs

Not sure how well this one works outside the uk

📅 Just less than two months from the 2026 FND Society Conference in Baltimore June 13th-16th - Click the link below to see all the conference highlights and get registered - In-person, virtual, and on-demand https://www.fndsociety.org/biennial-meeting/2026

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With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

Good story - and reflects how long people with FND often have to wait to get diagnosed FND should be part of standard medical training in every country so doctors don’t miss this condition

Very gratified to see the European Academy of Neurology has endorsed the AAN guidelines for management of functional seizures. Hope this means an improved approach and standard of care for people w/ this condition in Europe - and of course much much more research needed www.aan.com/Guidelines/H...

When I have a new idea vs. When I have to finish a project

First of 2 great @thelancetpsych.bsky.social articles on placebo/nocebo in psychiatry (& relevance to all of medicine) led by the brilliant @mattburkemd.bsky.social This one on harnessing placebo & mitigating nocebo www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🎙️Check out our most recent podcast. We spoke with Dr. Julia Doss, clinical psychologist & expert in PNES and FND, about her 20+ year career, pediatric vs adult differences, family roles, and treatment models. https://loom.ly/tQKnHaw

Brazilians truly revere doctors. #blursed

This is what doctors looks like. ER docs here. We will stick with our scrubs.

Loving this thread - has a lot of the joy and Jedi level bants of Twitter’s glory days We need more of this here!

New from the band formerly known as Hearing the Voice...a short paper about felt presence and early psychosis. We report some basic links to things like fear and quoted examples from our "Voices in Psychosis" study 1/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New from us: A special issue on secondary ("organic") psychosis just published in Schizophrenia Research - edited by Graham Blackman and me, but very much led by Graham: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Excellent articles on pressing clinical and scientific issues from a host of authors👇

New from the lab - led by Santiago Castiello - patients with schizophrenia detect speech in sine-wave stimuli and those who hallucinate benefit most from the templates: academic.oup.com/schizophreni...

Happy FND Awareness Day! Functional Neurological Disorder is a common but under-recognized condition. It can be highly disabling, distressing, and painful. We are nowhere near the level of support and treatment we need, but thanks to brave advocates we build awareness and get closer every day.

Europe has successful, and much needed, colonic www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy to share our latest study on domain specificity in interoceptive psychophysics!

Call for papers for a collection on placebo and nocebo effects in psychiatry - excellent! @sipsplacebo.bsky.social @timnicholson.bsky.social @devinterhune.bsky.social @labasedow.bsky.social @bnpa.bsky.social @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social

Adaptive DBS and the future of walking: Proceedings is out from the XIII annual DBS Think Tank. The meeting gathered engineers, neuroscientists, industry partners and health care providers to discuss the evolving landscape of DBS, including adaptive stimulation for walking and more.

Last year I had the pleasure of joining a new working group on AI & psychosis led by @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social & Tom Pollak. Today our report went into @thelancetpsych.bsky.social with updated recommendations for digital safety. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Call for abstracts for the Placebo, Hypnosis & Functional Disorders conference in Nancy (France), October 14–16, 2026 🚨 Beautiful location and fascinating talks/discussions about key scientific questions at the mind-body-society interface 💭🧠 Abstract deadline 27/04/26 www.phfd-conf.org/en/

Bumping this story again cuz it’s good magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/fun...

One week away from launching our 2nd annual @harvardmed.bsky.social course Brain Medicine: Integrating the Clinical Neurosciences. On demand viewing for 30 days. Nearly 150 people registered. Join us! @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social @foxmdphd.bsky.social learn.hms.harvard.edu/programs/bra...

I don't think first author @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social is very active here but new from us in Lancet Americas: Towards a Latin American neuropsychiatry www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Co-written between colleagues on what makes Latin American neuropsychiatry important, regionally and globally.

Delighted to share our paper in @braincomms.bsky.social: Clinical and demographic associations of recorded feigning in functional neurological disorder academic.oup.com/braincomms/a... Using a large international EHR database, we examined how often, and to whom, feigning codes are applied in FND.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Take four minutes out of your day.

⭐ META-ANALYSIS: Hospital delirium --> devastating long-term outcomes 253 studies, 137,000+ pts: • 5.4x dementia risk • 2.8x institutionalisation • 2.5x mortality • 1.7x readmission ⚠️ Delirium = a serious acute problem AND a risk warning. ➡️ All pts deserve robust delirium assessment

Just over 2 weeks left to submit your abstracts to the @fndsociety.bsky.social for the biannual FND international conference in Baltimore! Do come & support this new society for what must be medicine’s oldest & most enigmatic disorder! @https://www.fndsociety.org/biennial-meeting/2026/abstract

📣All welcome to join our @kingsioppn.bsky.social Neuropsychiatry meeting tomorrow on potential subtypes of delirium subtypes by Rowena Carter Teams link in below link!👇 This kicks off a term of themed of talks on the enigma that is Delirium @amaclullich.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/events/delir...

Findings in this @biologicalpsych.bsky.social CNNI paper are complementary to other results published using graph theory metrics in @braincomms.bsky.social. Check out this 20 minute lecture by Christi Westlin that connects the two papers! 8/8 youtu.be/0Zjs-7lf6fA academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

Check out my newest Substack column on bending the cause of Parkinson's disease through improved sleep. Spoiler alert: your brain's 'glymphatic system' is more than just plumbing. michaelokun.substack.com/p/can-we-ben...

Paper accepted! 😊 "Reframing the Free Will Debate: The Universe is Not Deterministic" will appear in Synthese. Final version available here: arxiv.org/abs/2503.19672 - with Henry Potter and George Ellis

A great present for all life scientists but especially those with an interest in the brain. Cheaper than a box of chocolates and better for you. Any royalties go to Parkinson’s research #Neurologicalbirdsong Murmuration amzn.eu/d/9zbsdOh