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Psychiatrist at UCL. International Psychiatric Association (INA) past president. Liverpool FC

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Tim Nicholson @timnicholson.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
First of 2 great @thelancetpsych.bsky.social articles on placebo/nocebo in psychiatry (& relevance to all of medicine) led by the brilliant @mattburkemd.bsky.social This one on harnessing placebo & mitigating nocebo www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Harnessing placebo effects and mitigating nocebo effects: implications for clinical practice in psychiatry and medicine
In psychiatry and medicine, there is a long history of framing placebo effects primarily as nuisance factors and focusing on how they should be minimi…
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proftonydavid.bsky.social @proftonydavid.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Controversies in Neurology conference March 26-28, Krakow cony.comtecmed.com/scientific-p... With International Neuropsychiatry Assoc. Debates on FND plus MS, Parkinson's, Alzheimers treatments @neuro-psychiatry.bsky.social @fndsociety.bsky.social @bnpa.bsky.social @neuropsychiatry.bsky.social
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Scientific Program | CONy 2025 | Controversies in Neurology
CONy's impressive scientific program covers various controversial topics in neurology sub-specialities | March 20-22, 2025 Prague Czechia
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proftonydavid.bsky.social @proftonydavid.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
@neuro-psychiatry.bsky.social @rcpsych.bsky.social @matthewbroome.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social
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proftonydavid.bsky.social @proftonydavid.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Just out - an account of the use of 'insight' in medicolegal settings to help decisions about involuntary treatment and decision-making capacity. Conclusion: can be useful if done in the right way and contra NICE, insight and capacity are NOT 'distinct concepts' authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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proftonydavid.bsky.social @proftonydavid.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Funny how Trump has not so far shown interest in a Pulitzer Prize (following JFK). Perhaps he has insight into the total lack of literary value in any of his crass and crude speeches
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proftonydavid.bsky.social @proftonydavid.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Does anyone know where I can get this wallpaper? (No, it’s not a cool new visual Illusion)
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proftonydavid.bsky.social @proftonydavid.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Classic
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proftonydavid.bsky.social @proftonydavid.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Thanks for contributions so far. Please repost!
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proftonydavid.bsky.social @proftonydavid.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Thanks for contributions so far. Please repost!
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proftonydavid.bsky.social @proftonydavid.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
x.com/proftonydavi... Mental health professionals (Nurses, OTs, Social workers, Psychiatrists, Psychologists). Do you find the concept of Insight in psychosis useful or not? Help us by completing this 5 min survey-part of a Masters' project at UCL qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_cC… @MaryBirken
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proftonydavid.bsky.social @proftonydavid.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
x.com/proftonydavi... Mental health professionals (Nurses, OTs, Social workers, Psychiatrists, Psychologists). Do you find the concept of Insight in psychosis useful or not? Help us by completing this 5 min survey-part of a Masters' project at UCL qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_cC… @MaryBirken
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proftonydavid.bsky.social @proftonydavid.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Nice work. Presumably a similar mechanism working in the opposite direction could lead to persistent over confidence in self efficacy and self certainty - or poor insight?
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proftonydavid.bsky.social @proftonydavid.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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Jonathan Rogers @drjprogers.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
If anyone has data on how catatonia is actually treated in clinical practice (ideally in the UK), @proftonydavid.bsky.social and I would be really interested to hear from you. For example, how many people get lorazepam? And how long till it's given? What other treatments are given?
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The Sassiest Semite @littlemisslizz.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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proftonydavid.bsky.social @proftonydavid.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
inawebsite.org INA is partnering with the Society of Biological Psychiatry, South Africa for its International conference 2026 and 'Controversies in Neurology (CONy)' meeting, Krakow, 2026. Note this years CONy Prague, March 2025 - very relevant to neuropsychiatry. cony.comtecmed.com/scientific-p...
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Home - The International Neuropsychiatric Association
The INA is an international organization dedicated to the development of neuropsychiatry across the world.
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proftonydavid.bsky.social @proftonydavid.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Just heard about Tim Crow’s passing. A giant of biological psychiatry. Got a bit stuck on the language-laterality-schizophrenia loop but always willing to reach for the big theory.
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Jesus Ramirez- Bermudez @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
In this paper, we provide examples of complex cases that require studying the interaction between neuropathological & psychological factors within sociocultural contexts, leading to intricate clinical patterns that demand a multidisciplinary approach to clinical care
Examples of cases in the borderland between neurology and psychiatry. Case A: 46-year-old woman develops a 6-month progressive state of psychotic depression, with a marked slowing of psychomotor activity, and a reduction in goal directed behavior and spontaneous speech. Case B: 60-year-old woman with a post-COVID neuropsychiatric condition characterized by cognitive impairment and depression. Case C: 49-year-old man, history of chronic exposure to solvents, who develops disorientation, memory disturbance, confabulation, complex visual hallucinations, and euphoric affect . Case D: a young woman with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
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proftonydavid.bsky.social @proftonydavid.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Thanks. Tried to convey why neuropsychiatry is so rewarding
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proftonydavid.bsky.social @proftonydavid.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Thank you so much
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proftonydavid.bsky.social @proftonydavid.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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Into the Abyss | Oneworld
‘Highly eloquent, fascinating and deeply compassionate’ Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm We cannot know how to fix a problem until we understand its causes. But even for some of the most common men...
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