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Jon Stone @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

New research study! 🎺 Can surgery or anaesthesia worsen/trigger FND? Please help Alex Lehn with this study if you are ✅18+ ✅ have a diagnosis of FND ✅ have had 1 or more procedures with general/local/regional anaesthetic/sedation Join here zurl.co/TOAJz

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Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Relevant topic also for FND care: delivering negative diagnostic test results is not automatically always positive for the patient. This experimental study suggests: 'Rather, a warm and competent doctor is needed for patients to integrate the medical information and put trust in it.'

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Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

A truly great collection of webinars about #placebo and #nocebo in many different contexts. The brightest minds - established experts and shooting stars - present their work. Recommend! From @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social @sipsplacebo.bsky.social @placebosydney.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social

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Lily Smythe @lilysmythe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🧠 We are looking for parents of children and adolescents with both #FND and #Autism to take part in an interview! - 20 minute survey followed by a ~1 hour interview with the parent and ~30 minute interview with the child Interested? ✉️ Please message me: lily.smythe@kcl.ac.uk Thanks for sharing!

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Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

We looked at a global cohort of >145,000 patients with a record of FND in the last 30 ys in TriNetX: confirmed frequent comorbidities and outcomes often worse than in MS. Read in JAMA Neurology: tinyurl.com/yc4wfyaj Open access to the accepted manuscript: osf.io/rwtnp @fndsociety.bsky.social

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Comorbidities and Outcomes in People with Functional Neurological Disorder

This cohort study compared the prevalence of neurological comorbidities among people with functional neurological disorder versus those with epilepsy and multiple sclerosis.

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Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

These two papers in Lancet Psychiatry about placebo/nocebo in practice and in trials are very worth reading. Be mindful about expectation in your patients/yourself, and critical even with RCTs. I hope reporting on placebo conditions, treatment expectations and blinding success improves steadily!!

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Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Interesting approach to avoid unblinding for a study on efficacy of psychotropic components. Just sedate them before giving the verum/placebo! I assume the setting & session with propofol alone might have large placebo effects, so sample size might be critical.

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The Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Don't miss our upcoming events on the boat 🚢 7.5. Exhibition opening with @ulrikebingel.bsky.social 11.6. Meet the Scientist in Potsdam with @jlaferton.bsky.social ➡️ ms-wissenschaft.de/de/veranstal... 8.7. Event on board with our clinician scientists @liviaasan.bsky.social & Lorenz Peters

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Dr Susannah Pick @susannahpick.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Call for abstracts for the Placebo, Hypnosis & Functional Disorders conference in Nancy (France), October 14–16, 2026 🚨 Beautiful location and fascinating talks/discussions about key scientific questions at the mind-body-society interface 💭🧠 Abstract deadline 27/04/26 www.phfd-conf.org/en/

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Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Milestone for FND care in Germany: first guideline on functional motor disorder, published by German Neurol. Society. I contributed to comorbidities, pharmacotherapy & placebo/nocebo. Hope it's a valuable resource for clinicians & support people living with FND. register.awmf.org/de/leitlinie...

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Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Finally a prospective study & spotlight on functional sensory symptoms! Congrats to the authors for this diligent, comprehensive & thoughtful work. Great to read qualitative analyses of symptom descriptions as well. Next up - pain in FND..! @braincomms.bsky.social

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Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Exciting research from Mirta Fiorio on placebo effects in the motor domain. She also experimentally probes predictions & bayesian integration in motor FND - can't wait to learn more from her on this in the future!

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Rok Berlot @rokberlot.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Grateful to share this work with my amazing coauthors: @timnicholson.bsky.social, @liviaasan.bsky.social, @bibastanton.bsky.social, Tom Pollak and Mark Edwards (@kingsioppn.bsky.social, University Hospital Essen and University of Ljubljana). #fnd, #neurology, #psychiatry, #neuropsychiatry

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Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

@popkirov.bsky.social delivers yet another fantastic instructive clinical overview on FND at the @dgn-ev.bsky.social conference (second largest national neurologists' society in the world). Packed audience, most attendees of the whole event. Amazing

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The Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Next up, a symposium on therapeutic expectations featured some other CRC members, @liviaasan.bsky.social, Justine Schmidt and Regine Klinger! As you can see, the room was packed! 🤩

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The Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

We are so proud that both first prizes of the "Förderpreis für Schmerzforschung" 2025 go to members of the CRC! 🤩 For the basic research category, we congratulate @liviaasan.bsky.social & Angelika Kunkel with their work on the role of dopamine in #treatmentexpectation! 💊

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Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

@8minutesold.bsky.social and others - cool project - and check our the page! Maybe a cool Sci Fi story from #cosmicchoreographies?!

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Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

SIPS snippet #4: It's so important to study patients directly to understand pain. So far, patient data seem to challenge the bayesian integration principles in pain. But we need a clearer picture - just as the work from Eleonora Camerone is striving to do! #SIPSplacebo2025 @sipsplacebo.bsky.social

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Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

SIPS snippet #3: Excited that we have people with lived experience at this conference @sipsplacebo.bsky.social The patient advisory board from Germany @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social has a poster today (Tues), no 88! Everyone at #SIPSplacebo2025 go check it out

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Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

SIPS snippet #2: Mirta Fiorio talking at #SIPSplacebo2025 about placebo mechanisms in motor system - important topic in neurology! And: Expectation & placebo/nocebo mechanisms are highly relevant in functional neurol. disorder - glad that @sipsplacebo.bsky.social is picking this up!

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Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

SIPS snippet #1: Ulrike Bingel from our @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social talking in the first plenary session of the SIPS conference in beautiful Krakow, presenting our work - no effect of dopamine pharmacomodulation on experimental placebo hypoalgesia. #SIPSplacebo2025

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The Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

One Saturday afternoon, we started with @winstontan.bsky.social and @liviaasan.bsky.social presenting the new SIPS ECR network. 🙌 Afterwards, @rimamrahal.bsky.social gave a fantastic keynote on #openscience and #registeredreports. ☝️ Of course, socializing also happened in the evening! ✨

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Devin Terhune @devinterhune.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Our new paper is out in BP:GOS. A large team including @lillianwieder.bsky.social‬, @susannahpick.bsky.social‬, ‪@sunjeevkamboj.bsky.social‬. We found that #dissociation can be reliably induced using a range of methods and drugs, most notably #mirror-gazing and #ketamine. t.ly/qOme3 t.ly/cK-YI

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The Induction of Dissociative States: A Meta-Analysis

Plain Language SummaryWe conducted a meta-analysis of studies that measured state dissociation (e.g., feeling detached from one’s environment) in different clinical groups and in response to different...

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Tamas Spisak @tspisak.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

As many of you know, I’ve been fascinated by brain attractor dynamics lately. Thrilled to share a new preprint on their link to orthogonal neural representations, co-authored with Karl Friston: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22749 - with implications for both neuroscience & AI! First in a series - stay tuned!

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Self-orthogonalizing attractor neural networks emerging from the free energy principle

Attractor dynamics are a hallmark of many complex systems, including the brain. Understanding how such self-organizing dynamics emerge from first principles is crucial for advancing our understanding ...

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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

🧠 Study exploring new FND treatment! We’re exploring patient views on Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) for #FND rehab. ✅ 18+ ✅ Diagnosed w/ motor FND (e.g. weakness, tremor) 📝 10-min survey and educational video: qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_... 📎 Poster below #FNDresearch #BCI

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The Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

✨ Best team ever!!! ✨ The Bingellab is one of 24 selected best research environments in Germany! ⭐ Thanks to our postdocs @liviaasan.bsky.social and @belkisezgiarikan.bsky.social for representing us in Berlin! ❤️

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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

🧵1/ New research alert! Our preprint is out: the largest study to date exploring neuropsychiatric and mental health outcomes in women with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). What did we find? A lot, and it matters. 📄https://ssrn.com/abstract=5263136 👇

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

🎉🥳 New article in BRAT: Prior research on belief updating, including my own work, has neglected characteristics of the person who provides new information. Here, we systematically manipulated the person's behaviour and examined its effect on belief updating. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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It's the content of the feedback that matters, not the person giving it: An experimental study on change of negative performance expectations

Previous research on biased expectation change has mainly focused on the mechanisms underlying the deficient processing of novel positive information …

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Alberto Espay @albertoespay.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Functional neurological disorder (#FND) remains a research orphan at NIH. FND is among the costliest and least funded sources of neurological disability (see graph). The latest NIH review cycle was no exception: zero FND-based grants were funded. www.neurology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Jon Stone @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

NEW FND FILM !- 'Recognising Functional Seizures'🎥 neurosymptoms.org/en/media/fnd... This 7-minute film was designed to help doctors and other health professionals, especially in emergency medical settings, learn about functional seizures and how to tell them apart from epileptic seizures. 1/

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Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Great input from a great webinar! Many implications for funct. sens. and motor symptoms. Sensory processing relies on feedforward modeling of sensory consequences of own actions. Many things could go wrong here & produce prediction errors as basis for aberrant sensations or invol. movements.

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The Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

We're looking for a PhD student in Essen! The project (A11): Effects of sickness symptom expectations and dynamics in an experimental model of inflammation-induced sickness Job ad: 🇩🇪 treatment-expectation.de/projekte-peo... 🇬🇧 treatment-expectation.de/en/projects-... Please share widely!

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

This should chill everyone in this country to the bone. All she did was write an OpEd the administration didn’t like. This is fascistic suppression of free speech.

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Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Today is #FND awareness day! I was lucky to learn a lot from people with FND and leading scientists within the last six months here at @kingsioppn.bsky.social. If you don't know about FND - here's a great read!

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Madeline V. Stein @madelinestein.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

We’re doing a lot of cool #nitrousoxide research #KCL to better understand the #neural basis of #perception! We started an instagram account, please give it a follow! We’ll follow back other studies 🤓 www.instagram.com/kcln2ostudy?...

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BNPA.bsky.social @bnpa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Kim Hearne now talking about her lived experience of functional neurological disorder #bnpa2025

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Nathan Huneke @nathanhuneke.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Our new review in JAMA Psychiatry: "Expectancy Effects, Failure of Blinding Integrity, and Placebo Response in Trials of Treatments for Psychiatric Disorders" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Thanks to co-first author Guil Fusetto-Veronesi; and to Samuele Cortese, David Baldwin, Matt Garner 🧵👇

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Expectancy Effects, Blinding Integrity, and Placebo Response in Psychiatric Disorders

This narrative review discusses the impact of expectancy effects and functional unblinding on treatment responses in randomized clinical trials of treatments in psychiatry.

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

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Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

🧠 Help Us Understand Pain Perception in FND! 🧠 Looking for volunteers with & without #FND for a study in London @kingsioppn.bsky.social. Single lab visit testing pain perception with electrical stimulation. Interested? Please message me: Livia.Asan@kcl.ac.uk ✉️ Thanks for sharing!

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