🧠 Concussion or FND—or both? Join Dr. Matt Burke, Neurologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, as he explores the clinical overlap & how to approach diagnosis + care. 🔗 Register: bit.ly/3FsfJoS

Our new study in @AJGPsych shows a significant correlation between depressive symptoms and tau accumulation tracked via longitudinal PET imaging. Important implications for understanding depression in neurodegenerative conditions. Read more:

Outstanding #BrainMedicine conference led by Sara Mitchell & #SarahLevitt from the University of Toronto! Great to see momentum growing to erode silos & integrate neurologic, psychiatric, & rehabilitative perspectives for complex brain disorders. Sarah Lidstone, MD PhD Matt Burke

🔥Most important paper of 2025🔥 👉Injury/disease don't reliably predict pain 👉Biomarkers alone can't explain pain 👉PSYCHOSOCIAL factors reliably predict chronic pain 👉Painful conditions can be predicted from the SYNERGY btwn bio + psychosocial factors tinyurl.com/jiksh

🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Inform and Do No Harm: A Novel Approach to Reduce Negative Effects of Mental Health Awareness My student Dasha Sandra tackled growing concerns about false self-diagnosis following awareness efforts and found a promising solution. Thread /1 With Zindel Segal

.@BrainComms paper by C. Westlin. fMRI study in #FND vs psychiatric controls showing increased crosstalk btw the somatomotor network & multiple other networks (e.g., salience, default mode, frontoparietal). Correlations w physical symptoms. Functional Neurological Disorder Society academic.oup.com/braincomms/art…

🧠 New paper out in BJPsych Bulletin: We surveyed psychiatry trainees across the UK— >40% are interested in #neuropsychiatry, but only 10% expect to get enough training. Trainees want: ✔️ More access ✔️ Neurology integration ✔️ Formal accreditation doi.org/10.1192/bjb.20…

🚨🍄 Major new preprint alert 🍄🚨 I think these will be important results. They are not going make me popular with my #psychedelic in-group, please do not shoot the messenger! The premise of this pre-registered meta analysis (osf.io/preprints/psya…) is that it is biased to

Great to be part of the first-ever Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) symposium Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 🇨🇦🧠 While long over due, hopefully this is the first of many to come Sarah Lidstone, MD PhD Gabriela Gilmour Lauren Sham Adriano Mollica & Sarah Hanafi Temerty Medicine U Calgary McGill University

We view the placebo effect as negative. In reality, it shows that our beliefs can directly shape our minds. We should instead master the placebo effect to revolutionize medicine.

Great to see! University of Toronto 🤝 Harvard University

Dr. Matthew Burke (Matt Burke): “Expectations, Brain-Body Circuits and Neuropsychiatry: Why Weren't We Taught a Third of Medicine” Date: Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 Time: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST Platform: Zoom (pre-registration required) Registration link: tinyurl.com/Grandrounds12

One of my long term patients made me a survivor immunity necklace. Days like today make me love my job and appreciate the importance of building rapport in managing chronic disease. This is necklace is now my entire personality, by the way. Hey, SURVIVOR , time to get me on

1/ Just out in Nature Medicine : we show the opioid system modulates ketamine’s effects in major depressive disorder, with naltrexone pre‑treatment reducing acute glutamatergic activity and acute antidepressant effects. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Our new open access paper looking at Migraine and FND, two of the commonest conditions in neurological practice. Migraine and functional neurological disorder (FND)—a review of comorbidity and potential overlap. academic.oup.com/braincomms/art… 🧵1/

“We fall through every crack.” “still trying to access support.” “When it was Parkinson’s, the world was kind. With FND, it’s like no one cares.” Real stories from people living with Functional Neurological Disorder. We co-wrote this piece to make sure they’re heard—and helped.

It was a privilege to chair a symposium on TBI and Neuromodulation with the generous support from Gairdner Foundation and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre's Tory Trauma Program, and Nir Lipsman our division head.