Why do we use Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) as a treatment option in our multi-disciplinary pathway for Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)? 🧵 1/9

“The recent rise in tics is caused by a known condition – and it's not all due to TikTok”. Thanks @conversationuk for asking me to write this theconversation.com/the-recent-ris… via The Conversation

Rishi Sunak is talking about charging people £10 if they don’t turn up for medical appts. This is of course ridiculously unenforceable - absolute pea brained and no idea how real life works.

Interesting article @TAS__Lab William McGeown @PeterLush4 Jason Price Kate Binnie

Congratulation Samuel for this excellent work!

📢Special Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience IoPPN Neuropsychiatry Research & Education Group lecture Monday 15th Aug 6-7pm, Bush House, Aldwych King's College London's cool old BBC HQ venue "Neuroscience & impacts placebo/nocebo effects" by Matt Burke Free/open to all but need to sign up Limited tickets here👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-neurosci…

Excellent book/ programme ⁦David Robson⁩ #NHS would benefit. Beliefs based on “suggestions” powerful effects. Placebo-Nocebo? ⁦Matt Burke⁩ ⁦Tim Nicholson⁩⁩ ⁦Jon Stone⁩ ⁦Alan Carson⁩ ⁦Jo Talbot Bowen⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/…

Functional symptoms are real. They are not your fault. They are not "all in the mind". A short thread on a long misunderstanding. 🧵1/10

Brilliant podcast from LifewithFND interviewing Alex Fisher who’s an OT specialising in FND. Full of useful information for any one with this condition, highly recommend!

It’s really hard to say what my wife does for a living. She sells sea shells on the sea shore.

Love to see Boris’ next job reference :”ambitious[egomaniac], able to work autonomously [doesn’t listen to anyone else],calm under pressure [couldn’t give a shit what happens], good team player [will lie through back teeth to protect self and chums] 🤔

Hypnosis was more effective than PMR in reducing test anxiety among medical college students. Hypnosis could modify attentional bias toward threatening stimuli, but PMR could not. #MedTwitter #MedEd #FOAMed #medstudenttwitter #anxiety

Foreign accent syndrome and other neuropsychological sequelae of a parietal-occipital injury following PRES and COVID-19 tandfonline.com/eprint/ZJIQG8I…

Groundbreaking😊 Many therapeutic interventions use respiratory rhythms to access the predictive mind…easy to use adjunctively in medical settings Jon Stone Jason Price Alan Carson FND Portal - is no longer on X Tom Plender Prof Miranda Wolpert @niallpboyce BSCAH Wendy Burn CBE 🌈 Kathrin LaFaver, MD, FAAN, DipABLM Matt Burke

The effect of attachment style on long-term outcomes in functional seizures: Results from a prospective study. Epilepsy & Behavior epilepsybehavior.com/article/S1525-…

'Hypnotherapy isn’t magic, but it helps some patients cope with surgery and recovery' By Debra Bruno washingtonpost.com/health/hypnoth…

I thought the Ofgem strategy of adopting 3 monthly price caps, rather than 6 monthly ones allowed a quicker reduction in rates when oil/gas prices fall? Optimistic- as all It’s done is to allow rises every 3 months - people at Ofgem need sacking…

Remember the saying ‘jumpers for goalposts’? As we move towards October, It’s now more apt to say ‘jumpers so you can have something to eat…’

Thought this might be the case for some. I know wonderful dedicated and hardworking specialist nurses who will be effected by this. It’s an utter disgrace. Those at the top of band 7 have narrowly missed this too. No wonder people are leaving in droves.

👍 William McGeown @PeterLush4 Quinton Deeley & Wendy Philips virtually or in-person Mon 12th The Royal Society of Medicine ?interest Wendy Burn CBE 🌈 @TAS__Lab Alan Carson Matt Burke Tim Nicholson Jason Price Kathrin LaFaver, MD, FAAN, DipABLM @susannah_pick Vaughan Bell FND Portal - is no longer on X Henrietta Bowden-Jones Andrew Lees Jon Stone