This Week in The Journal #JNeurosci | How Visual Cortices Develop; Dopamine Dynamics during Decision-Making
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/46/14/etwij46142026

SfN Neuronline logo. Webinar series: Meet-the-Clinician-Expert. Inside the Human Brain: What Intracerebral Recordings Reveal About Sleep Physiology and Epilepsy. Wednesday, April 22, 1–2 p.m. EDT. Lino Nobili, MD, PhD.

Want to learn from a successful neuroscientist who's helped reveal the blurred boundaries between wake and sleep?

Attend this upcoming Meet-the-Clinician-Expert webinar!

Register now🔗: vist.ly/4xzaj

#neurosky #neuroskyence #academicchatter

New Diagnosis Patient Packet: April FND Awareness

After #FNDAwareness, there are common questions among therapists and MDs:

What do I say?
What should we do during episodes?
How do we support school participation and recovery?
We created this pediatric FND diagnosis packet to help:

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#Neurology #RehabMedicine #FND

“… imagining an object reactivates some of the same neurons involved in seeing it in the first place, providing new insight into how mental imagery is produced in the brain.”

#scicomm
#neuroskyence

www.sciencenews.org/article/seei...
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Dorsoventral hippocampus neural assemblies reactivate during sleep following an aversive experience - Nature Neuroscience Synchronization of sharp-wave ripples across the dorsoventral hippocampus during sleep supports coordinated reactivation that represents negative experiences more faithfully than positive ones.

Our paper is out today!!! (not an April fool's day joke) Congrats to authors @azulsilva.bsky.social, @belalima-paiva.bsky.social, Ele Pronier, and mostly to the amazing scientist and human being who led this project @facuumm.bsky.social
#neuroskyence #hippocampus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#eNeuro Blog | Reviewing Editor Adrien Peyrache highlights the work from Khouma et al., which explores a neuropeptide released by sleep-active neurons in the hypothalamus that promotes wakefulness by inhibiting histaminergic neurons.
https://blog.eneuro.org/2026/03/editors_pick_peyrache

Are memories in your brain distributed or local? How did early experiments in the late 1940s address this? Join me this week with neuroscientist Nicole Rust (nicolecrust.bsky.social), author of "Elusive Cures", as we discuss the modern emerging picture of the brain.
eagleman.com/podcast/141

A New Framework for Functional Neurological Disorder: When the Brain’s Confidence Falters

A New Framework for Functional Neurological Disorder: When the Brain's Confidence Falters A new theoretical framework published in *Brain* reframes functional neurological disorder (FND) as a disorder of…

1/"The distinction between diseases of 'brain' and 'mind', between 'neurological' problems and 'psychological' or psychiatric ones is an unfortunate cultural inheritance the permeates society and medicine,

Rethinking FND in Parkinson's: Beyond the Organic Binary The organic vs. functional binary fails Parkinson's patients. Discover why Functional Neurological Disorders (FND) require an embodiment framework to treat.

A while ago I gave a talk at the London Medical Society on “functional” vs “organic” illness (it was rough, I was nervous).

Now Ben Stecher, an awesome Parkinson’s advocate-researcher, analyzes it in this lovely blog post to examine overlap of FND + PD

Delighted! 🙏

tmrwedition.com/2026/03/02/t...

Functional hierarchy of the human neocortex across the lifespan - Nature fMRI data from individuals of a wide range of ages (from a few days to 100 years old) are used to map the key organizational axes of functional connectivity in the human cortex throughout the lifespan...

Check out this @nature.com paper on how the brain’s functional hierarchy evolves from birth to 100. Infants' gradient architecture is anchored by sensory systems, differentiates along association and control axes during childhood/adolescence & dedifferentiates in aging
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Environmental context can shape how our brains function! 🌟New work🌟 led by all-stars @niaberrian.bsky.social and @monicarosenb.bsky.social shows that environmental exposures in youth are reflected in brain networks that keep our attention focused! 🧠🌲
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devpsy #neuroimaging

The future of movement disorders YouTube video by Stanford University School of Engineering

On National Doctors’ Day, we honor Dr. Helen Bronté-Stewart, Stanford neurologist and movement disorders leader. Her work with closed-loop DBS and digital health tech is reshaping Parkinson’s care. #NationalDoctorsDay #Parkinsons #Neurology

med.stanford.edu/bronte-stewa...

Redefining Parkinson's Disease | Kathleen Poston YouTube video by Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford

On National Doctors’ Day, we’re honoring Dr. Kathleen Poston, a trailblazing Stanford neurologist redefining Parkinson’s disease.

Tune in to a recent podcast: youtu.be/HW7dJkSMFhY?...

Or visit her lab website: med.stanford.edu/poston-lab.h...

#NationalDoctorsDay #Parkinsons #Neurology

🎧 New Episode Alert! 🎧

Check out Episode 102 of the Stanford Medcast: "Inside the Epileptic Brain" with Dr. Juliet Knowles. Discover how myelin plasticity could transform epilepsy care!

👉 Listen here: med.stanford.edu/cme/stanford...

#EpilepsyCare #StanfordMedcast

And now for something completely different…

"Morning garden in Spring", 1930,
Oil on canvas

Peder Mørk Mønsted, Danish (1859 - 1941)

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/

Frontiers | The effectiveness of specialist cognitive behavioural therapy for functional neurological disorder: a service evaluation IntroductionFunctional neurological disorder (FND) is a common and disabling condition associated with high levels of functional impairment and psychological...

Pleased to share our article reporting routine clinical outcomes of the South London & Maudsley specialist cognitive behavioural therapy service for #FND. Patients reported significant improvements in distress, functioning & cognitive-behavioural symptom responses www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

This workbook is aimed at kids and teenagers but honestly I think it’s a really practical resource for anyone with FND. Highly recommend!

www.amazon.ca/Reset-Rewire...

aeon.co/essays/why-y...

I recently wrote this piece about why the body and not just the brain is important for thinking

Theory paper developing these ideas and arguments more formally will follow up soon

Watch this space 😎

Eamon McPartlin, FND Ireland Updates and NAI Patient Experience Survey Findings YouTube video by FND Ireland

📢 #FNDIreland Conference recordings on our YouTube channel.

Our fifth presentation by our founder Eamon McPartlin provides an update on our work since we launched in April 2024. He also shares some of the findings from NAI Patient Survey. www.youtube.com/watch?v=34sw... 💚🧡
@fndportal.bsky.social

The Functional Neurological Disorder special collection in Brain Communications: bringing FND into the mainstream Our Guest Editor, Jon Stone, introduces a special collection of articles focusing on functional neurological disorder.

I was asked by @braincomms to highlight their FND special collection which welcomes clinical and neuroscience research on every aspect of the condition.

A chance to reflect on how FND has moved from miscellaneous to mainstream

academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

Stanley Spencer painted about a dozen landscapes in and around Leonard Stanley in Gloucestershire during the early 1940s. The village, not far from Stroud, contains the remains of a Benedictine priory which lies at the foot of the Cotswold escarpment.

Very much agree with the points made here!

I especially appreciate how apprehension re: FND often flips into inspiration when clinicians see the tangible good they can do

“The fact that we can make disastrous decisions even as we foresee their consequences is the great, unsolved mystery of human behavior.”

—Slavoj Zizek

Photo: Andy Miah | #SlavojZizek #literature #quotes #fblifestyle #philosophy

Can machine learning really beat classic stats at classifying chronic pain?

Excited to share the first in our series of papers using hypothesis-driven analyses to identify reproducible, verifiable biomarkers of chronic pain. We validated findings across three cohorts (N=197).
#PainResearch
#ML
#AI

New guidance on management of functional seizures, some key points:
✅Clear diagnosis to universal standard
✅Psychological treatments help
✅Continuity of care important
✅Screen for comorbid epilepsy
🚫Antiseizure meds or Benzodiazepines do not help
@epilepsyireland.bsky.social @fndportal.bsky.social

Psilocybin rewires specific mouse cortical networks in lasting ways Neuronal activity induced by the psychedelic drug strengthens inputs from sensory brain areas and weakens cortico-cortical recurrent loops.

A single psilocybin dose in mice sparks neuronal activity that leads to long-term changes in the wiring of specific networks, according to a new study.

By @siddhantpusdekar.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/4pqcpwR

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, December 12th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Mathias Pessiglione giving a talk entitled "Origins and consequences of cognitive fatigue"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

The newly announced ERC Consolidator Grants will support research into children’s mental health treatments, tumor-targeting nanotechnology, early sepsis detection, protein machines, Rome’s efforts to avoid collapse... and much more ✴

Congratulations to all!

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