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Paywall, https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3745 Sci hub, https://sci-hub.se/10.1136/bmj.m3745

there was an episode of Diagnosis detectives on bbc last week: The cardologist turns out to be wrong. The neurologist explains that the seizures are either from epilepsy or 'dissasociative seizures'; interestingly they do conduct tests and manage to get results when the patient is actually...

Full title: The vicious cycle of functional neurological disorders: a synthesis of healthcare professionals’ views on working with patients with functional neurological disorder Paywall, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09638288.2020.1822935 Sci hub...

Paywall, https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/early/2020/07/30/jnnp-2019-322281 Sci hub, https://sci-hub.tw/10.1136/jnnp-2019-322281

https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/91/8/e17.3 BNPA Abstracts 2020 Members’ Poster Abstracts 24 An analysis of sentiment and publicity of functional neurological disorder and non-epileptic attack disorder on twitter Felix May, Rohan Kandasamy Author affiliations Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit...

https://neurologyopen.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000065 The related talk "Setting up an FND Teaching Curriculum" was held on zoom and is kept available here: https://zoom.us/rec/play/v8B5c7ugqjo3S4HEswSDC6UoW9W_eq6s0CUX-vYKyEi0V3cAMAelb7UQYbbKqX1EQ-CJhxBVBw81g4vz You can listen at x1.5 speed. The...

Paywall, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13546805.2020.1791061 Not available via Sci hub at time of posting.

BPS crew in shock "ill people pay attention to their symptoms, while healthy people don't pay attention to symptoms they don't have" insight. Paywall, https://journals.lww.com/psychosomaticmedicine/Abstract/9000/Attentional_processing_and_interpretative_bias_in.98525.aspx Sci hub, not available...

Jon Stone cross referencing himself again. Paywall, https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/brain/awaa037/5816705 Not available via Sci hub at time of posting.

Hospital, BBC 1, 19 March 2020 FND not ME On now, this is covering FND

Kienle J, Rockstroh B, Fiess J, Schmidt R, Popov T, Steffen-Klatt A 2018, Variation of Functional Neurological Symptoms and Emotion Regulation with Time, Frontiers in Psychiatry 9 (2018), https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00035 DOI=10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00035 (open...

No time to read this today and apologies if already posted in another thread: https://psyarxiv.com/bwa6m/ What is the Functional / Organic Distinction Actually Doing in Psychiatry and Neurology? Authors: Vaughan Bell, Sam Wilkinson, Monica Greco, Callum Hendrie, Ben Mills, Quinton Deeley...

NHS Clinical Networks Non-Dementia Pathways Guidance from the London Dementia Clinical Networks January 2020 (Version 2) PDF: https://www.england.nhs.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2019/07/Final-non-dementia-pathways-V2.pdf Selected extracts: The aim of this document is to provide...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/30/quarter-of-parkinsons-sufferers-were-wrongly-diagnosed-says-charity It is an actual, current and effective, belief in many corners of medicine that presenting with a large number of symptoms is itself undeniable evidence of psychogenic disorder...

Open access, https://www.dovepress.com/managing-functional-neurological-disorders-protocol-of-a-cohort-study--peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-NDT

Trial By Error: Shaky Evidence for Signs of Functional Neurological Disorders http://www.virology.ws/2019/12/30/trial-by-error-shaky-evidence-for-signs-of-functional-neurological-disorders/ 30 December 2019 By David Tuller, DrPH One of my goals next year is to write more about so-called...

I am posting this because I think it clearly shows that FND is just a rebranding of the old conversion disorder with a touch of the PACE trial approach. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29764988 But now they're trying to show, with what appears to be poor quality studies, that this idea...

Full title: Virtual Reality-Delivered Mirror Visual Feedback and Exposure Therapy for FND: A Midpoint Report of a Randomized Controlled Feasibility Study Paywall, https://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.19030071 Scihub, https://sci-hub.se/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.19030071

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I have a neuro appointment next week because the past year I've had some pretty horrible 'neuro' symptoms including ongoing tinnitus and vision issues. I worry that the consultant may push an FND diagnosis. We all know this is the flavour of the month. There is of course overlap between my...