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Tim Nicholson

@timnicholson.bsky.social
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Neuropsychiatrist, King’s College London

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JAMA Neurology @jamaneurology.com · 03/08/2026
Patients with functional #neurological disorder exhibit frequent psychiatric and neurological comorbidities, worse functional outcomes, higher health care use, and increased mortality compared with multiple sclerosis. ja.ma/3Rvrq4N
Figure 1. Bar chart: 'Distribution of diagnoses by sex'. Y-axis: No. of patients (0-60k). X-axis: Diagnosis (FND-motor, FND-seizure, FND-sensory, FND-mixed). Females (grey) show notably higher patient numbers than Males (orange) across all diagnoses. Unknown (light blue) are low.
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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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FND Portal @fndportal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Congrats Keishema and Vaughan and gang - excited to see what the community thinks of this! A pleasure to be a part of it too 😄
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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New from us: We gathered psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and individuals with lived experience to develop... A neuropsychiatry curriculum for clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists: An e-Delphi study bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Journal of Neuropsychology | Wiley Online Library
Neuropsychiatric presentations are common across neurological and mental health services but they are often inadequately covered by core clinical psychology and clinical neuropsychology training. Con....
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Tim Nicholson @timnicholson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
More amazing work by @rokberlot.bsky.social 👏👏💪🏻💪🏻
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Tim Nicholson @timnicholson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
All welcome to this today 1-2pm uk time - will be amazing 👌 See here for Teams link www.kcl.ac.uk/events/again... @kingsioppn.bsky.social
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Against Mind-Blindness: Recognizing and Communicating with Diverse Intelligences | King's College London
Neuropsychiatry Meetings discuss exciting research and interesting cases relevant to neuropsychiatry and to promote cross-talk between psychiatry, neurology and psychology.
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Tom Plender @tomplender.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
PLEASE SIGN IF YOU CAN - My sister is an anthropology lecturer at Exeter University, they plan to slash the budget for social sciences, this represents an existential threat for the social sciences and will harm the student experience. www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
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Tim Nicholson @timnicholson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Brilliant 3 part BBC documentary on the mind blowing & tragic case of Megan Bhari that’s presented as a case of Factitious or Induced Illness (FII) = Munchausen’s by proxy = medical abuse It’s almost impossible to imagine that a parent could do this to their child www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
What are the preferences of novel in silico and in vivo agents that aren't directly engineered toward a specific set of behaviors? An example, from the world of Lenia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenia) - here's our #preprint on agnosiophobia (avoidance of the unknown): arxiv.org/abs/2605.30708
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BPS Division of Neuropsychology @donbps.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
We are looking for volunteers with experience of Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) presentations in A&E settings to contribute to a BPS study day on FND. If you are interested in getting involved, please submit your interest via the Microsoft Form: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
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Tim Nicholson @timnicholson.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
📣Small, but mighty, new paper: Electronic health record study of FND led by the brilliant @liviaasan.bsky.social 👌👌👏👏 Largest study to date of real world data on the basics of FND 👇
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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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Rory Higgins @roryhigginsphysio.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Delighted to report our study on sensory symptoms has been published in @braincomms.bsky.social - @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social, Prof. Mark Edwards, Dr. Jan Coebergh, @roryhigginsphysio.bsky.social, @gnielsenphysio.bsky.social academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
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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 · 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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Catbus @catbus.phd · 08/05/2026
sign o the times
sign reading

so much panic 
so little disco
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FND Ireland @fndireland.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Take 5 minutes to view this video from teenager Molly's powerful speech on living with #FND to TD's and Senators in Leinster House on April 30th, 2026, which received a standing ovation. Share Molly's voice to change our healthcare system. 💚🧡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NamW... @fndportal.bsky.social
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Teenager Molly Gallagher's speech - living with Functional Neurological Disorder to TD's & Senators.
YouTube video by FND Ireland
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Tim Nicholson @timnicholson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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Functional Neurological Disorder Society @fndsociety.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
📄Recent Research Highlight 📖Functional Neurological Disorder: State-of-the-Art Advances Published in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences loom.ly/Qzhao3s
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Functional Neurological Disorder Society @fndsociety.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
📢Check out this recent interview with Dr. David Perez and NPR about a musician with FND. loom.ly/RKqGKSs
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Her medical condition stumped doctors for years. Now, she has answers : Short Wave
One morning, Kyla Madonna Kenney woke up and her world was turned upside down: The room was spinning, she had a splitting migraine and one side of her body was shaking. Her tremors and migraine lasted for days. And for years afterwards, doctors would ask her: Did anything upset you recently? Are you stressed? Have you talked to a therapist about your anxiety? She underwent surgeries and took medications that were, in hindsight, unnecessary. It wasn’t until seeing Dr. David Perez, a neurologis...
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Tim Nicholson @timnicholson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Not sure how well this one works outside the uk
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a couple of men are sitting at a table in a restaurant eating sandwiches .
ALT: a couple of men are sitting at a table in a restaurant eating sandwiches .
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Functional Neurological Disorder Society @fndsociety.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
📅 Just less than two months from the 2026 FND Society Conference in Baltimore June 13th-16th - Click the link below to see all the conference highlights and get registered - In-person, virtual, and on-demand www.fndsociety.org/biennial-meeting…
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Tim Nicholson @timnicholson.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
👏👏👏💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻😂😂😂
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/04/2026
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FND Portal @fndportal.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Good story - and reflects how long people with FND often have to wait to get diagnosed FND should be part of standard medical training in every country so doctors don’t miss this condition
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FND Portal @fndportal.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Very gratified to see the European Academy of Neurology has endorsed the AAN guidelines for management of functional seizures. Hope this means an improved approach and standard of care for people w/ this condition in Europe - and of course much much more research needed www.aan.com/Guidelines/H...
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Management of Functional SeizuresAmerican Academy of Neurology: Neurology Resources | AAN
<p>This guideline provides evidence-based recommendations for clinicians, patients, and other stakeholders on the diagnosis and management of functional seizures.</p> <p><em>Endorsed by the American ...
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
When I have a new idea vs. When I have to finish a project
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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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Functional Neurological Disorder Society @fndsociety.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
🎙️Check out our most recent podcast. We spoke with Dr. Julia Doss, clinical psychologist & expert in PNES and FND, about her 20+ year career, pediatric vs adult differences, family roles, and treatment models. loom.ly/tQKnHaw
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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 14/04/2026
Brazilians truly revere doctors. #blursed
Christ the Redeemer, statue Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Halleh Akbarnia, MD, MPH @hallehakbarniamd.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This is what doctors looks like. ER docs here. We will stick with our scrubs.
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Tim Nicholson @timnicholson.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Loving this thread - has a lot of the joy and Jedi level bants of Twitter’s glory days We need more of this here!
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Ben Alderson-Day @aldersonday.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
New from the band formerly known as Hearing the Voice...a short paper about felt presence and early psychosis. We report some basic links to things like fear and quoted examples from our "Voices in Psychosis" study 1/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Experiences of felt presence in first episode psychosis - Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia - Experiences of felt presence in first episode psychosis
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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
New from us: A special issue on secondary ("organic") psychosis just published in Schizophrenia Research - edited by Graham Blackman and me, but very much led by Graham: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Excellent articles on pressing clinical and scientific issues from a host of authors👇
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
New from the lab - led by Santiago Castiello - patients with schizophrenia detect speech in sine-wave stimuli and those who hallucinate benefit most from the templates: academic.oup.com/schizophreni...
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Increased Reporting of Speech in Degraded Stimuli in Schizophrenia: A Case Control Study with Sine-Wave-Speech
AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. People who hear voices may have strong prior expectations of speech, so that noisy auditory signals are resolved as spee
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FND Portal @fndportal.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Happy FND Awareness Day! Functional Neurological Disorder is a common but under-recognized condition. It can be highly disabling, distressing, and painful. We are nowhere near the level of support and treatment we need, but thanks to brave advocates we build awareness and get closer every day.
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Tim Nicholson @timnicholson.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Europe has successful, and much needed, colonic www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Orbán era swept away by Péter Magyar's Hungary election landslide
Viktor Orbán's 16 years in power is over, defeated by a 45-year-old ex-party insider who convinced a majority of Hungarians to oust him.
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 18/03/2026
Happy to share our latest study on domain specificity in interoceptive psychophysics!
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Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Call for papers for a collection on placebo and nocebo effects in psychiatry - excellent! @sipsplacebo.bsky.social @timnicholson.bsky.social @devinterhune.bsky.social @labasedow.bsky.social @bnpa.bsky.social @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social
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Michael Okun @michaelokun.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Adaptive DBS and the future of walking: Proceedings is out from the XIII annual DBS Think Tank. The meeting gathered engineers, neuroscientists, industry partners and health care providers to discuss the evolving landscape of DBS, including adaptive stimulation for walking and more.
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Ben Alderson-Day @aldersonday.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Last year I had the pleasure of joining a new working group on AI & psychosis led by @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social & Tom Pollak. Today our report went into @thelancetpsych.bsky.social with updated recommendations for digital safety. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Artificial intelligence-associated delusions and large language models: risks, mechanisms of delusion co-creation, and safeguarding strategies
Large language models (LLMs) are poised to become a ubiquitous feature of everyday life, mediating communication, decision making, and information cur…
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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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PHFD Conference – PHFD conference
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FND Portal @fndportal.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Bumping this story again cuz it’s good magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/fun...
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Functional Neurological Disorder, Reframed
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David L Perez MD, MMSc @davidlewisperez.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
One week away from launching our 2nd annual @harvardmed.bsky.social course Brain Medicine: Integrating the Clinical Neurosciences. On demand viewing for 30 days. Nearly 150 people registered. Join us! @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social @foxmdphd.bsky.social learn.hms.harvard.edu/programs/bra...
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Brain Medicine: Integrating the Clinical Neurosciences | Harvard Medical School Professional, Corporate, and Continuing Education
Explore cutting-edge advances in brain medicine with this interdisciplinary course designed to equip clinicians with integrated tools for assessing and managing complex brain disorders, featuring expe...
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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I don't think first author @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social is very active here but new from us in Lancet Americas: Towards a Latin American neuropsychiatry www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Co-written between colleagues on what makes Latin American neuropsychiatry important, regionally and globally.
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Rok Berlot @rokberlot.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Delighted to share our paper in @braincomms.bsky.social: Clinical and demographic associations of recorded feigning in functional neurological disorder academic.oup.com/braincomms/a... Using a large international EHR database, we examined how often, and to whom, feigning codes are applied in FND.
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Clinical and demographic associations of recorded feigning in functional neurological disorder
Analysing electronic health records, Berlot et al. found 2.2% of functional neurological disorder cases also had recorded malingering or factitious disorde
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/01/2026
Take four minutes out of your day.
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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Alasdair MacLullich @amaclullich.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
⭐ META-ANALYSIS: Hospital delirium --> devastating long-term outcomes 253 studies, 137,000+ pts: • 5.4x dementia risk • 2.8x institutionalisation • 2.5x mortality • 1.7x readmission ⚠️ Delirium = a serious acute problem AND a risk warning. ➡️ All pts deserve robust delirium assessment
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