Professor of Neurology, University of Edinburgh. FND Research. Creator of http://neurosymptoms.org. President Elect of http://fndsociety.org
Jon Stone
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The “Hallett Sign” - in honour of Mark Hallett (1943-2025)
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"Oxygen desaturation in patients with functional seizures: pitfalls for the unwary" - our new paper with Takamichi Kanbayashi and Kirsteen Brown in Practical Neurology
Free link here - bit.ly/465qEzk
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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
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A pilot randomized controlled trial of prolonged exposure therapy vs. psychoeducation for psychogenic nonepileptic seizures and comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder - Epilepsy & Behavior. www.epilepsybehavior.com/article/S152...
In 2025 - grateful that our Functional Neurological Disorder Unit & Research Group has diligently work across the 4 pillars of our mission: clinical care, program development, research & education. Making progress - with much more to do!
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David L Perez MD, MMSc
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David L Perez MD, MMSc
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
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We have waited a long time for a robust clinical study of functional sensory symptoms and signs.
Congrats to @RoryHigginsPT and @GNielsen_Physio for leading this excellent study - detailed thread below
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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.
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Doing so will help make the meeting a financial success. Thank you!
FND: an evolutionary perspective
A short piece exploring an evolutionary perspective, specifically survival responses, to FND.
These are not new ideas, but thank you to Akiriho Nishi for suggesting a short, standalone article to encourage wider debate
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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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In psychiatry and medicine, there is a long history of framing placebo effects primarily as nuisance factors and focusing on how they should be minimi…
Functional neurological disorder (FND) is among the commonest disorders in neurological practice with an estimated prevalence of 80–140 per 100 000 individ
Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES), also known as functional dissociative seizures
(F/DS), are paroxysmal episodes that resemble epileptic seizures, but lack electrophysiological
correlation or ...
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
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