Anthony David

Director, UCL Institute of Mental Health

[Anthony David @ProfTonyDavid]

Read more - 'Into the Abyss: a neuropsychiatrist's notes on troubled minds'
https://t.co/5lVu94xtzW

[Jesus Ramirez-Bermudez @JRBneuropsiq]

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[Anthony David @ProfTonyDavid]

Book Now! @The_BNPA @SecretaryINA @rcpsychNeuro @FNDAction @FNDSociety @vaughanbell @UCLBrainScience @KingsIoPPN @anpadirect @global_gng

[Anthony David @ProfTonyDavid]

Come to the Great North Neuropsychiatry Conference 2026, where we will also be celebrating the British Neuropsychiatry Associations (BNPA) 40th Anniversary

Thurs 5th November 2026, Grand Hotel, Gosforth Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 5HN
@SecretaryINA @The_BNPA @vaughanbell

[Deborah Cohen @deb_cohen]

Inside the Lyme Disease industrial complex...where flawed tests sold by private companies lead to questionable diagnoses and harmful treatments

My latest for @unherd with @mgtmccartney

[Anthony David @ProfTonyDavid]

Connections: A Story of Human Feeling by Karl Deisseroth - review by Anthony David https://t.co/6UdXhadTyK via @Lit_Review

[Anthony David @ProfTonyDavid]

Connections: A Story of Human Feeling by Karl Deisseroth - review by Anthony David https://t.co/6UdXhadTyK via @Lit_Review

[Anthony David @ProfTonyDavid]

Fair point. Kandel was no longer working clinically when he did his ground breaking scientific work, but still.
Egas Moniz - neurosurgeon - won it for psychosurgery (& angiography); Arvid Carlsson - pharmacologist - for studies on dopamine.
https://t.co/kOJUfZwAbx
needs updating

[Michael David @michaelcbdavid]

@ProfTonyDavid @KarlDeisseroth What about https://t.co/6YWcix1BQF

[Anthony David @ProfTonyDavid]

Congratulations - esp @KarlDeisseroth
Only 2nd psychiatrist in history ever to be so awarded.
The 1st Wagner Juaregg (an avowed Nazi) got it for malaria therapy for neurosyphillis - best forgotten

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

[Brain @Brain1878]

The latest episode of the Brain podcast-out now!

Listen at: https://t.co/U2VCFnljwF

Featuring discussion with senior author Professor Gültekin Tamgüney on: Vaccines mimicking conformational epitopes on α-synuclein fibrils provide immunity to Parkinson’s disease

[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

[Anthony David @ProfTonyDavid]

Come to the Great North Neuropsychiatry Conference 2026, where we will also be celebrating the British Neuropsychiatry Associations (BNPA) 40th Anniversary

Thurs 5th November 2026, Grand Hotel, Gosforth Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 5HN
@SecretaryINA @The_BNPA @vaughanbell

[Anthony David @ProfTonyDavid]

Check this out and the other commentaries in @CogNPsychiatry @SecretaryINA @The_BNPA @vaughanbell

[Functional Neurological Disorder Society @FNDSociety]

��Professor Jon Stone has published commentary in response to the article:
Functional neurological disorders: misunderstanding “Dualism” by Anton Scamvougeras &David Castle
https://t.co/9fihahAf5A

Check out the 🔗 below to read his response:
https://t.co/2wFAQnIdYa

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

Artificial intelligence judged by No Intelligence

[Anthony David @ProfTonyDavid]

@SecretaryINA

[Jesus Ramirez-Bermudez @JRBneuropsiq]

Viernes 11, en el Congreso de la Asociación Psiquiátrica Mexicana, Santa Fe
9.00 am: @ProfTonyDavid , Director del Instituto de Salud Mental, University College de Londres: Psicosis, la Metacognición y el Cerebro.
12:20: El Espectro Neuropsiquiátrico de las Psicosis

[Anthony David @ProfTonyDavid]

@SecretaryINA

[Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell]

Every Time Dualism is Mentioned in Clinical Debate, a Philosopher is Thrown Out of Heaven

https://t.co/SKRP0nTOvi

New piece from me, arguing for the role of psychological mechanisms in FND, commenting on Scamvougeras and Castle

[Anthony David @ProfTonyDavid]

I propose:
...It is a narrative that often highlights levels of understanding despite the challenges of serious mental disturbances and should be incorporated into clinical training.

[Anthony David @ProfTonyDavid]

... but the relationship between (compliance and insight) is not straightforward and not be considered circular.
6. A more nuanced description of insight emerges when we look at what psychiatrists and others mean when they talk about insight....

[Anthony David @ProfTonyDavid]

4. A simple definition of ‘lack of insight’ (like delusion) is difficult if not impossible to achieve due to the requirement to contextualise such mental phenomena in question within a social and cultural milieu.
5. Compliance with treatment may follow from insight into illness..

[Anthony David @ProfTonyDavid]

Insight cont/
2. While mere ‘agreeing with the doctor’ is an inadequate definition it is not unreasonable starting point
3. Part of the construct is a (meta)cognitive style which when lacking, tends towards excessive certainty and rigidity.

[Anthony David @ProfTonyDavid]

Coming out "What we talk about when we talk about insight" J Humanistic Psychol.
https://t.co/NxksznN5NP
I propose:
1. It does not fit with a narrow version of the ‘medical model’, so let us use a medical model which is deeper and has real explanatory power./

[Anthony David @ProfTonyDavid]

@michaelcbdavid

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Footage shows a couple tying the knot in a flooded church in the Philippines.

Heavier‑than‑usual seasonal monsoon rains caused landslides and flash floods in the country, killing 34 people.

[Jonathan Rogers @drjprogers]

Psychomotor retardation looks a bit similar to parkinsonism. In this paper, we examine whether it might be a prodromal feature as part of depression: https://t.co/tLUoR3aKzw.