🧵📣 1/2 The #LongCovid Groups have come together again responding to Maria Caulfield MP’s wholly inadequate reply to our letter to Rishi Sunak in Dec last year.

“You advise that it is not usual practice to ring-fence research funding, but this is not a usual situation”

#LongCovid

Please spread the word - my team now seeking participants with functional seizures or motor symptoms for my Medical Research Council funded study. We are very keen to hear from people with functional (dissociative/non-epileptic) seizures, who are currently under-represented in our sample.

11.7T MRI 👌👌newatlas.com/medical/powerf…

Proud to share our open access qualitative systematic review exploring lived experience of motor and sensory FND. Thanks to brilliant co-authors for their expertise and to MHRUK.
Full text here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Brief thread with findings below 1/4

I didn´t thought we would make it all the way to Brain !

Congratulations to Miguel Restrepo-Martínez & to the cognitive neurology & #neuropsychiatry team!

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1/5 We present:
Defining repetitive behaviours in frontotemporal dementia academic.oup.com/brain/article-…

Been an amazing few weeks for #FND campaigning culminating in a brilliant FND awareness day. Big shout out to all involved & huge thanks to Kim our CEO at FND Action who works so tirelessly behind the scenes to make things happen & support patients, Kim you are a legend!👏👏👏

A very interesting paper about the emergence of cooperative dyads. You need similarity (in social status)to optimise communication and difference (in personality) to optimise decision-making.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10…

Finally, out today in PNAS: 'Brain decoding of spontaneous thought: Predictive modeling of self-relevance and valence using personal narratives' Hongji Kim et al. with Byeol Lux, Eunjin Lee, and Emily Finn pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

I was asked to appear on BBC News Look North last night to discuss #FND along with FND patient Leanne Fraser here’s a link if you want to check out the full interview - youtu.be/6FDgxKL4pek?si…

Shaping Memories via Stress: A Synaptic Engram Perspective

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#Stress modulates the activity of #memory systems. At the cellular level, #noradrenaline & glucocorticoid release induced by acute stress exposure affects synapse function & plasticity...
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Join us for our last talk of the term 1-2pm Tues 26th March

Masumi Tanaka, new neuro ITU consultant at King's Critical Care King's College NHS, on 'Neuropsychiatry in the ITU'

All welcome in person or on this Teams link:
eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e83/…