Tim Nicholson

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...

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

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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
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Co-written between colleagues on what makes Latin American neuropsychiatry important, regionally and globally.

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

Delighted to share our paper in @braincomms.bsky.social:

Clinical and demographic associations of recorded feigning in functional neurological disorder
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Using a large international EHR database, we examined how often, and to whom, feigning codes are applied in FND.

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⭐ 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

A century ago, John Logie Baird achieved a landmark moment in television history. The viewers weren’t convinced In Soho, London, 100 years ago, John Logie Baird’s mechanical television system broadcast recognisable human faces for the first time.

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Just over 2 weeks left to submit your abstracts to the @fndsociety.bsky.social for the biannual FND international conference in Baltimore!

Do come & support this new society for what must be medicine’s oldest & most enigmatic disorder!

@https://www.fndsociety.org/biennial-meeting/2026/abstract

Delirium Subtypes | 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.

📣All welcome to join our @kingsioppn.bsky.social Neuropsychiatry meeting tomorrow on potential subtypes of delirium subtypes by Rowena Carter

Teams link in below link!👇

This kicks off a term of themed of talks on the enigma that is Delirium
@amaclullich.bsky.social

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YouTube video by David L Perez Inside the Predictive Brain: Neuroimaging Insights into Brain Circuitry in FND

Findings in this @biologicalpsych.bsky.social CNNI paper are complementary to other results published using graph theory metrics in @braincomms.bsky.social.
Check out this 20 minute lecture by Christi Westlin that connects the two papers! 8/8
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Check out my newest Substack column on bending the cause of Parkinson's disease through improved sleep.
Spoiler alert: your brain's 'glymphatic system' is more than just plumbing.
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Paper accepted! 😊 "Reframing the Free Will Debate: The Universe is Not Deterministic" will appear in Synthese. Final version available here: arxiv.org/abs/2503.19672 - with Henry Potter and George Ellis

A great present for all life scientists but especially those with an interest in the brain.
Cheaper than a box of chocolates and better for you. Any royalties go to Parkinson’s research
#Neurologicalbirdsong

Murmuration amzn.eu/d/9zbsdOh

Investigating the methodological foundation of lesion network mapping - Nature Neuroscience The lesion network mapping method links diverse brain lesions to similar functional brain networks, reflecting general brain organization rather than disorder-specific circuits.

Oh, oh my. I need to go through this closely, and as noted earlier NN has a history. But my first read is wow www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nice work Rudolf - one day you’ll hopefully crack that personalised treatment algorithm!😆

Hope all well in Canada …as much as it can be with what’s going on with your neighbour🤦‍♂️

Not many moments have felt like big steps in my kids’ generally gradual development, but this is one.

Last ever bottle of Calpol (paracetamol = acetaminophen) going into recycling now youngest can swallow tablets

Along with quivers of syringes, an ever present from infancy in all parents lives!😆

Long-Term Tofersen: Could targeting SOD1 change ALS trajectory? Spoiler alert: YES. Miller and colleagues describe in a new paper in JAMA Neurology the long-term outcomes of Tofersen in SOD1 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, integrating the VALOR trial and its open-label extension.

Non-invasive brain stimulation is stepping up to be part of future neurology. Rektorová and colleagues describe in a new paper in Nature Reviews Neurology how non-invasive brain stimulation is being used today, and where it may be headed. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social @brainstimulation.bsky.social

Functional Neurological Disorder Following COVID‐19: Results From a Large International Electronic Health Record Database Compared with other respiratory tract infections, the incidence of functional neurological disorder following COVID-19 is increased, with the risk higher in individuals with a more severe disease cou...

Does COVID-19 increase the risk of FND?

Find out in our paper, now published in the @europeanjournalofneurology.ean.org

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Using EHR data from >2.7 million COVID-19 cases, we estimated the risk of new-onset FND within six months following infection.

Reclaiming FND for Rehabilitation Medicine – new open access editorial

Neurorehab colleague Phil Milburn-McNulty and I set out why Rehab Medicine is so well-suited to treating FND, why they historically haven’t and what can be done to change things.

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Such a superb, insightful & brave paper from @gailfdavies.bsky.social who so eloquently captures and describes what many of us have noticed about the evolution of symptoms as a result of patients’ interactions with the medical system👏👏💪🏻💪🏻

Straight into my top 10 of best papers ever on FND👌👌

Got my ticket for FNDS 2026! 😎

Join us in Baltimore!

Learn about FND and the mysteries of the brain!

Hang out with fun people!

Eat excellent seafood!

Allow me to regale you with tales of what was up in Fells Point before it got swanky!

etc

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Amazing work led by the superb Rok ‘Rock star’ Berlot! 👏👏💪🏻💪🏻👌👌

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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The clinical borderlands between dementia, catatonia and autoimmune encephalitis | 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.

📣Special @kingsioppn.bsky.social
Neuropsych talk *this Friday 5th evening 5-6pm GMT* @ki.se ‘s Jakob Theorell on ‘clinical borderlands between dementia, catatonia & autoimmune encephalitis’👌

Teams link below & all welcome to join/share share with anyone interested!👍

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Education Research: Targeting Self-Described Knowledge Gaps to Improve Functional Neurologic Disorder Education Among Clinicians | Neurology Education Background and ObjectivesThe objective of this study was to improve functional neurologic disorder (FND) education by identifying knowledge gaps among providers who registered for an online course on ...

Excellent podcast by #DaraAlbert & #JeffRatliffe on a recent @greenjournal.bsky.social Education article.
Targeting Self-Described Knowledge Gaps to Improve FND Education among Clinicians. Check it out.
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Thanks for the post @alancarson15.bsky.social - grateful that the Harvard Medical School magazine put together this spotlight on functional neurological disorder.

What an incredible piece of work. So cool to read about Charcot in this vivid detail - who had such a huge effect on FND, but also ... most other neurological conditions you've heard of. And the fields of neurology and psychology. And popular culture. And...

🎙️ New podcast episode!
We’re joined by Dr. Sarah Cope, Consultant Clinical Psychologist & accredited EMDR/CBT therapist.
We cover:
• Her path into FND
• EMDR basics
• EMDR for FND, incl. her NIHR-funded MODIFI trial