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Alan Carson

@alancarson15.bsky.social
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Neuropsychiatrist Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Professor University of Edinburgh.

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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
That and the modern journalists problem with false equivalence equating to balance
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article.... Poor bordering on irresponsible from @bbc
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The battle over Canada's mystery brain disease
A small Canadian province feared it had a mystery neurological illness on its hands. The search for answers set off a battle for the truth.
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Jon Stone @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
At the year's end, our Edinburgh FND Research Group 2023-25 report. A huge thank you to those who have given to us, and an update on what we've all been doing. ☑️ 2023-5 Report here - bit.ly/3KWEcpH ☑️ You can donate here - neurosymptoms.org/en/donate/ Thank you!
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 28/12/2025
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/fun...
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Functional Neurological Disorder, Reframed
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FND Portal @fndportal.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Just renewed my @fndsociety.bsky.social membership! They've done a huge amount of work over the last few years to improve research, treatment, and education for folks with FND. And there's clearly more ahead. Check them out!
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David L Perez MD, MMSc @davidlewisperez.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
@fndsociety.bsky.social Advanced Course for the Assessment & Management of Functional Neurological Disorder is OPEN for registration & ON-DEMAND viewing of talks. Webinar on Nov 6th 9am EST @fndportal.bsky.social @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social @alancarson15.bsky.social www.fndsociety.org/fnd-educatio...
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FND Portal @fndportal.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
An important study (IMO) looking at social dynamics re: FND on Twitter. People w FND face continual attack by a variety of groups who dismiss our condition and experiences - ranging from abusive clinicians to other disabled people. It makes it even harder to exist in public with this dx.
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Not sure we need word ‘may’- the rate of diagnostic increase is biologically implausible and speaks to diagnostic practice- probably previously under disgnosed now considerably over diagnosed
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
www.jmir.org/2025/1/e73439
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An Exploration of How Functional Neurological Disorder Is Discussed on X (Twitter): Mixed Methods Study Using Social Network and Content Analysis
Background: Functional neurological disorder (FND) is one of the commonest conditions in neurological practice, describing symptoms like paralysis and seizures that can be severe and disabling. It is ...
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Jon Stone @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Pleased that "Continuum" the AAN journal asked for this article on the management of functional movement disorder - coauthored with @alancarson15.bsky.social Article paywalled but podcast is free. Some snippets in thread🧵 Article: continuum.aan.com/doi/full/10.... Podcast: x.com/ContinuumAAN....
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
This whole section really.
Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
It was an elegant study- interesting work
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Would one not antipate differences depending on system thus for vision space may be more important but say pain one might predict time??
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
They made a nice job of it and it is well reasoned- although part of me thinks you could have knocked out the answer in the pub before you got half way through first pint
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Functional/dissociative seizures: Proposal for a new diagnostic label and definition by the ILAE task force
The acceptability and validity of the term
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FND Ireland @fndireland.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
📢 Delighted to have Dr. Caoimhe McLoughlin speak at our first #FNDIreland Conference on 'The Role of Neuropsychiatry in FND' and share her research on Stigma in #FND which she completed under the supervision of @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social and @alancarson15.bsky.social. 💚🧡 @fndportal.bsky.social
Image description: A white and green poster for the FND Ireland Conference speakers. 

The text reads: "Meet Our Speakers: Dr. Caoimhe McLoughlin, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist
Dr McLoughlin trained in Ireland in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, the branch of medicine that deals with conditions at the interface of body and mind. She was awarded a European Fellowship with the ETUDE program for Functional Disorders, which she recently completed in Edinburgh, under the supervision of Professors Jon Stone and Alan Carson. Her topic of study was Stigma in Functional Neurological Disorder (FND).

FND Ireland Conference 2025
Date: Saturday 18th October, Location: Maldron Hotel Tallaght, Dublin."

There is a headshot photo of Dr. McLoughlin in the top left of the poster. She is a person with dark hair and is wearing a yellow cardigan and black top.
There is a green and orange graphic of a person's silhouette in the bottom right and a QR code to book tickets to the conference in bottom left
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FND Portal @fndportal.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
It’s not “dismissing” someone to give them a diagnosis of Functional Neurological Disorder. Like all other conditions, it’s either 1. A correct dx for that person, or 2. not. When you say “dismissing as FND,” you reveal that you think there’s a hierarchy of disorders, some more legit than others
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Is it not the case that both propositions are extremes- lesion based studies clearly show some localisation but adaptations shows widespread networks- so my bet is schrodingers- you’re both simultaneously right and wrong
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
2 of last 3 sold out so when bookings go live later this year- get in
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl... No surprises here- but good to see confirmed- what many of us who followed the evidence have been saying
thelancet.com
Effects of therapeutic interventions on long COVID: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Exercise training should be prioritized for improving cardiopulmonary function and exercise capacity in Long COVID, supported by high-certainty evidence. Respiratory muscle training and PEA-LUT offer ...
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Alasdair has dedicated himself to this topic for last 25 years- ghis should be cracking
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Great work by veronica the app is now available - Mementum by cogniss
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Maybe they could pay their fair share of taxes instead?
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Absolutely- also although we live in an era of biomarkers and imaging remember the single most useful investigation in dementia is speaking to s family member
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
There are multiple levels of assumptions and calculations and dats fitting- none pre registered through this analysis
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I ll eat humble pie when the findings are independently replicated
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
What an amazing opportunity! Taught by the brilliant @vaughanbell.bsky.social and free for @bnpa.bsky.social members. BNPA is a wonderful society uniting psychiatrists, neurologists, neuropsychologists, neuroscientists and psychologists. Join today
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Congratulations Michael
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
academic.oup.com/brain/advanc.... This is interesting
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Classifying neurogenic dysphagia as a movement disorder
Swallowing is a complex sensorimotor task with widespread control throughout the nervous system. Jones et al. explore swallowing disorders in neurological
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I d add physio and ot- getting patients up and mobile asap
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Great read but i wondered on your thoughts of ticket pricing going forward- it was stratospherically expensive- and there were a significant number of empty seats
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Ross Colquhoun @rosscolquhoun.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Westminster keeps misdiagnosing why voters turn to Farage. Mimicry isn’t cure - it feeds decline. The real remedy is education, a better standard of living, and hope. Brexit sped up UK’s decline and left voters searching for easy targets to blame, aided by Reform/Tories/Labour.
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
It is slightly disappointing the tendancy in psychanalysis to a ‘creationist’ approach with all ideas starting with Freud but the basic principles of object relations theory has so much to offer to all medicsl encounter not just FND
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Tim Nicholson @timnicholson.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
📣Fantastic FND Society course on diagnostics, aetiology & Mx of functional seizures+ epilepsy 13-14 June online (or in person Boston USA!) 👌👌 @fndsociety.bsky.social @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social @alancarson15.bsky.social @mahyog.bsky.social @davidlewisperez.bsky.social @fndportal.bsky.social
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This was rather good www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Neuropsychiatry as a paradigm propelling neurology and psychiatry into the future | BJPsych Open | Cambridge Core
Neuropsychiatry as a paradigm propelling neurology and psychiatry into the future - Volume 11 Issue 2
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Case was funded by small donations from multiple Scottish woman with a donation (i believe around 1/3) from another scottish woman Ms Rowling. There was no US involvement
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Yes at apple and google app stores
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Altered/looser diagnostic approaches….tighten them
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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Clinical psychologists: The British Neuropsychiatry Association are running a free training day on 'Understanding Neuropsychiatric Problems for Clinical Psychologists'. Fri 4 July, London You just need to be a BNPA member to attend and you can join for £70 👇
bnpa.org.uk
British Neuropsychiatry Association founded in 1987.
Academic & professional body for practitioners & professionals allied to medicine at the interface of the clinical & cognitive neurosciences, & psychiatry
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David L Perez MD, MMSc @davidlewisperez.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Standing room only for 2 hour symposium on functional neurological disorder (#FND) at the #AAN2025 meeting - with a focus on functional seizures, post concussive syndrome / functional cognitive disorder & pathophysiology. #BarbaraDworetzky @mattburkemd.bsky.social
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 04/04/2025
Do you have #ADHD or #autism? We're running a short, anonymous survey on interoception. It takes just 15–20 minutes, and your input would mean a lot. 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Aarhus University Student Survey
This questionnaire will take approximately 15- 25 minutes to complete. Please answer in a safe environment and as truthfully as possible. As a neurodiverse research team, we prioritize the comfort an...
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Prof Danny Altmann @daltmann.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Association between Wealth and Mortality in the United States and Europe | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... Survival in top wealth quartiles, Europe, higher than wealthiest Americans. Survival in wealthiest U.S. quartile similar to that in poorest quartile in Europe.
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Association between Wealth and Mortality in the United States and Europe | NEJM
Amid growing wealth disparity, we have little information on how health among older Americans compares with that among older Europeans across the distribution of wealth. We performed a longitudinal...
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
neurology.org
Cost Utility of Specialist Physiotherapy for Functional Motor Disorder (Physio4FMD) | Neurology Clinical Practice
Background and ObjectivesFunctional motor disorder (FMD), a motor-dominant variant of functional neurologic disorder, is a disabling condition associated with high health and social care resource use ...
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The bizarre part of the story is that many journalists serm to think there are two sides to it and having convicted criminals running for office is acceptable. Then in separate commentaries wonder why public has no faith in politicians or the media
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0JY...
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COFFI Consumer-Researcher Online Seminar IV
YouTube video by CAG
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
academic.oup.com/brain/advanc.... I have to confess to not being persuaded- comes down to how specific you believe these investigations to be. Clinicslly such cases look much more nociplastic to me
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The presence and prognosis of nerve pathology following whiplash injury: a prospective cohort study
Fundaun et al. investigate grade II whiplash injuries (WADII) and find that two-thirds of patients have signs of acute nerve injury and nerve-related pain,
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
New drug for lower back pain could be ‘a gamechanger’. My money is on Dr Ellis’s comments
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Thousands have sought second opinion after NHS hospitals adopted Martha’s rule, MPs hear- it woukd be good to see some hard data on efficacy of this- how often did it really change management and if it did, did that alter long term outcome. I ve no preconceptions but would benefit from proper study
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
road.cc/content/news...
road.cc
James May tells councils to stop being "t***s" and build more cycle lanes
Former Top Gear host calls "anti-cycling rage" in the Telegraph "nonsense" and thinks "the best thing you could do with the driving test is make a part of it on a bicycle"
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