FNDConnect

Sharing news & views of the #FND community. Carer for FND, (Fibro, CP, POTS, CRPS) sufferer, wanting to help share info & experience. Non medical professional.

[FNDConnect @ConnectFnd]

To avoid confusion, please be aware that this account has no connection to @fndconnect_uk which was formed later.

[David L. Perez MD, MMSc, FAAN, FANPA @DavidLewisPerez]

Sharing new @BiologicalPsyc1 structural brain MRI mega-analysis in Functional Neurological Disorder. This international effort was led by #MattButler & @Tim_R_Nicholson in collaboration with the @FNDSociety Neuroimaging SIG. Check it out. @KingsIoPPN https://t.co/96MEqsP2WF

[KimH @KH118118]

A functional seizure is still a seizure. Seizures in Epilepsy involve abnormal electrical activity in the brain. Seizures in #FND involve changes in how brain networks function together. Different mechanisms. Same reality. Both are real seizures.

[Jon Stone @jonstoneneuro]

Scamvougeras and Castle express the view that FND should be framed ONLY in psychiatric terms in a new article @CogNPsychiatry
https://t.co/TMGDzggUpg

My reply explains why I think this historical - and dualistic - approach is wrong: https://t.co/Oo9T3kuXTy

[Jon Stone @jonstoneneuro]

New NHS England Neurology Service specification.

✅FND is one of seven core subspecialties
✅FND services MUST be provided in each specialised neurology centre.

This is huge recognition of how common FND is in neurology - and unthinkable 20 yrs ago. 1/

https://t.co/XvGo0NIryA

[FNDConnect @ConnectFnd]

@FndPortal @KingsIoPPN I am so pleased for you and the field of neuroscience!

[Dr sthanu subramanian @drsthanus]

A conceptual framework for Functional neurological disorder (FND), highlighting factors like predisposing vulnerabilities, precipitating events, comorbidities, and perpetuating mechanisms centered around brain function and prediction errors.

https://t.co/oQoE5a5kzo

[David L. Perez MD, MMSc, FAAN, FANPA @DavidLewisPerez]

Pleased to learn that this 2025 @braincomms article by Westlin et al is being featured in a @SecretaryINA & @global_gng journal club. Info below.
Delineating network integration and segregation in the pathophysiology of functional neurological disorder https://t.co/BGptExmq1r

[FNDConnect @ConnectFnd]

I can’t believe my daughter has fractured a rib from a functional seizure.

Now for more memory loss episodes and heightened pain leading to more functional seizures.

#FNDaware

[Functional Neurological Disorder Society @FNDSociety]

📅FNDS is pleased to highlight the Placebo, Hypnosis, and Functional Disorders Conference 2026 (Nancy, France Oct 14-16) a meeting dedicated to advancing the understanding between mind, body, and society.
Additional information on the conference website:https://t.co/4BgDMCc4Kz

[David L. Perez MD, MMSc, FAAN, FANPA @DavidLewisPerez]

Outcomes and Cost-Effectiveness of an Interdisciplinary Clinic for Functional Neurologic Disorders | Neurology Clinical Practice. @NeurologyCP https://t.co/5Im34Rdr4a

[Jon Stone @jonstoneneuro]

"Mark Hallett and the renaissance of functional neurological disorder" - a tribute to the man and a look back at the evolution of FND over the last three decades.

https://t.co/1MONj8c7OP

Thanks @JankovicJoseph for inviting this for a special issue of "Clinical Parkinsonism"

[Jon Stone @jonstoneneuro]

Congratulations Amanda !

[Jon Stone @jonstoneneuro]

These researchers from @KingsCollegeLon are looking for 200 people with FND to fill out online questionnaires. Please consider helping out.

[Jon Stone @jonstoneneuro]

This is a video that health professionals and some patients and families may find helpful to understand modern concepts around chronic nociplastic pain

[David L. Perez MD, MMSc, FAAN, FANPA @DavidLewisPerez]

The 6th International Conference on Functional Neurological Disorder (@FNDSociety) has been [and continues to be] a smashing success. The latest clinical insights, cutting edge science, & cross talk with other areas of neuroscience & clinical interest all covered.

[Abhijit Das @Brain_Tinkerer]

Four posters put up and ready to go at the @FNDSociety Conference #Baltimore. All related to #Hypnosis. @EdinPublishing @TomPlender @BSCAH1 @RoySocMed @WilliamMcGeown @NIRSlearn

[FND Hope International @FNDHope]

FNDS conference is in full force. FND and women: surprisingly little research focus, despite the high prevalence.

[Abhijit Das @Brain_Tinkerer]

While in Washington, DC for @FNDSociety conference 2026, I had the chance to meet Amir Gandjbakhche, a global leader in fNIRS research.
Amir kindly agreed to be hypnotised — and, because no good neuroscience opportunity should go unmeasured, we collected fNIRS data during #hypnosis. 🧠✨
Thanks to his fellow and students for the quick set up.
My quest continues: developing objective tools to measure and monitor #hypnosis in real time.
The goal is simple: reduce stigma, build clinical confidence, and help hypnosis move further into mainstream healthcare and especially for #FND
Science, curiosity, and a little trance work in the DC.

@EdinPublishing @NIRSlearn @BSCAH1 @Sec_BSCH @RoySocMed @WilliamMcGeown @TranceformM