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Mahinda Yogarajah

@mahyog.bsky.social
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Consultant neurologist and clinical academic based at NHNN and UCL. Interested in all things inter-disciplinary and in the borderlands ...

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FND Portal @fndportal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
“The heartbeat evoked potential and the prediction of functional seizure semiology” Exciting new work from @rokand.bsky.social @sarahgarf.bsky.social @mahyog.bsky.social and co-authors in Brain Communications (please forgive any missed tags here 🙏) academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
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Jon Stone @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Just over 4 weeks left until the @FNDSociety 2026 Baltimore meeting! zurl.co/qqGFg If your budget can stretch, PLEASE consider booking the conference hotel. zurl.co/SDhZS Doing so will help make the meeting a financial success. Thank you!
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Mahinda Yogarajah @mahyog.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Pleased to see this out ! In it we propose that the nature or semiology of functional/dissociative seizures may not be random. academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
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Epilepsia Journal @epilepsiajournal.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
A holistic, biopsychosocial approach benefits all seizure patients and reflects modern models of epilepsy care. doi.org/10.1111/epi.... #epilepsy #ILAE #epilepsia #epilepticseizures #functionaldissociativeseizures
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Mahinda Yogarajah @mahyog.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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Beyond the spike: Functional (dissociative) seizures as a key to holistic attitudes in seizure disorders
Epileptologists can improve outcomes through follow-up and coordination of care for patients with functional seizures. Epileptic and functional seizures share some mechanistic overlap involving inter...
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Dr Lisa Quadt @lisaquadt.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
For a summary, check this out: www.bsms.ac.uk/about/news/2... More to come out of this data set soon!
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Hypermobility identified as risk factor for Long Covid - BSMS
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
@raniaimanvirjee.bsky.social now on Bluesky!
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience Day 2: @afelsenheimer.bsky.social detailing her work on the effect of self touch on anxiety, Rania-Iman on heartbeat evoked potential analysis, and @hannahsavage.bsky.social presenting a novel test for gastric interoception.
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
And we’re off! Jamie Ward opening @bacn.co.uk #BACN2025 in Edinburgh with prize talk by @engra.me detailing his work and service to the scientific community
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Always a pleasure to hear the exciting work in a fast presentation data blitz session. From my lab, @oliwiastecko.bsky.social detailing the unexpected journey replicating prior work on memory & the heart. Find out more in poster #4 at #BACN2025
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FND Portal @fndportal.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I’ll be speaking on the (new!) terminology of Functional / Dissociative Seizures today at ILAE’s International Epilepsy Conference. 4:45 Lisbon time. See if you can find me!
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Jon Stone @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Our new open access paper looking at Migraine and FND, two of the commonest conditions in neurological practice. Migraine and functional neurological disorder (FND)—a review of comorbidity and potential overlap. academic.oup.com/braincomms/a... 🧵1/
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FND Ireland @fndireland.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
We hope that many neurologists (in particular epileptologists & paediatric neurologists), epilepsy nurses & other healthcare professionals are attending this training. Research has shown that over 20% of those with functional seizures also have epilepsy. 💚🧡 @epilepsyireland.bsky.social #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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FND Portal @fndportal.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Outstanding learning opportunity! 👀
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Angel Aledo-Serrano @aledoneuro.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Highly recommended course to update on the latest advances in #FunctionalSeizures and overlap with #Epilepsy: exploring biological mechanisms, diagnosis & treatments through modern neuroscience 🧠 Organized by @fndsociety.bsky.social with online option available www.fndsociety.org/fnd-educatio...
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Jon Stone @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
How common is FND? ‘Incidence and Prevalence of Functional Neurological Disorder: A systematic review’ – a new open access article in JNNP led by Sara Finkelstein with Clare Diamond, and @alancarson15.bsky.social jnnp.bmj.com/content/earl... 1/🧵
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Dr Leo Russell @leoistdp.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I've put together a starter pack for the FND science community. Please repost to share the link and do let me know of folks I've missed so I can add them to the group. Thanks everyone 🙏 🧵 1/
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Jon Stone @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Another tweet reissue. This time 'Why FND is not feigning or malingering' from Feb 2023, a Nature Reviews Neurology paper with Mahinda Yogarajah and Mark Edwards nature.com/articles/s41.... a thread… 1/
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