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
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When I have a new idea vs.
When I have to finish a project
…and there’s this nice accompanying editorial on the 2 papers 👌
Bravo @mattburkemd.bsky.social 👏👏💪🏻💪🏻👌👌
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@liviaasan.bsky.social @popkirov.bsky.social @susannahpick.bsky.social
@davidlewisperez.bsky.social
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Def do that - suspect (& hope?!) it’s ‘admin error’
Second article focuses on the critical issue of detecting/measuring & appraising placebo in trials
Such a massively important (and complex/fascinating) issue in evidence based medicine that’s still so poorly understood
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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
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Def weird (& disrespectful waste of your and your team’s time) to desk reject after encouraging submission
Have you checked with editor & people who encouraged submission?
Feels likely someone else screening submissions …or they glanced at this and forgot it was something they’d agreed was of interest with more context/info
🎙️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
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.
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.
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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/
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
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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
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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
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Using a large international EHR database, we examined how often, and to whom, feigning codes are applied in FND.
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