Rok Berlot
@rokberlot.bsky.social
Neurology | Cognitive & Clinical Neuroscience | Neuroimaging | FND | Movement Disorders
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Professor Jernej Ule @ulelab.bsky.social, School of Neuroscience and @crick.ac.uk, teamed up with molecular biology and cancer experts to use his expertise on mRNA 🧬 to understand how to turn our immune system 🤧 on and off.
🔗 Read more: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/a-balan...
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January 22, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Professor Jernej Ule @ulelab.bsky.social, School of Neuroscience and @crick.ac.uk, teamed up with molecular biology and cancer experts to use his expertise on mRNA 🧬 to understand how to turn our immune system 🤧 on and off.
🔗 Read more: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/a-balan...
🔗 Read more: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/a-balan...
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This is great - a really nice overview of recent FND network studies, and a friendly introduction to predictive processing theory 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
youtu.be/0Zjs-7lf6fA
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Check out this 20 minute lecture by Christi Westlin that connects the two papers! 8/8
youtu.be/0Zjs-7lf6fA
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Inside the Predictive Brain: Neuroimaging Insights into Brain Circuitry in FND
YouTube video by David L Perez
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January 22, 2026 at 3:27 AM
This is great - a really nice overview of recent FND network studies, and a friendly introduction to predictive processing theory in FND 🙌
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New-onset FND appears more likely after COVID-19 than other respiratory tract infections. Both the severity of the triggering illness and pre-existing individual vulnerability may contribute to the development of FND.
📚 Read now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#FND
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#FND
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January 8, 2026 at 3:03 PM
New-onset FND appears more likely after COVID-19 than other respiratory tract infections. Both the severity of the triggering illness and pre-existing individual vulnerability may contribute to the development of FND.
📚 Read now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#FND
@ean.org #WileyNeuro
📚 Read now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#FND
@ean.org #WileyNeuro
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I was asked by @braincomms to highlight their FND special collection which welcomes clinical and neuroscience research on every aspect of the condition.
A chance to reflect on how FND has moved from miscellaneous to mainstream
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A chance to reflect on how FND has moved from miscellaneous to mainstream
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The Functional Neurological Disorder special collection in Brain Communications: bringing FND into the mainstream
Our Guest Editor, Jon Stone, introduces a special collection of articles focusing on functional neurological disorder.
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January 8, 2026 at 8:24 PM
I was asked by @braincomms to highlight their FND special collection which welcomes clinical and neuroscience research on every aspect of the condition.
A chance to reflect on how FND has moved from miscellaneous to mainstream
academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
A chance to reflect on how FND has moved from miscellaneous to mainstream
academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
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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.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Does COVID-19 increase the risk of FND?
Find out in our paper, now published in the @europeanjournalofneurology.ean.org
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Using EHR data from >2.7 million COVID-19 cases, we estimated the risk of new-onset FND within six months following infection.
Find out in our paper, now published in the @europeanjournalofneurology.ean.org
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Using EHR data from >2.7 million COVID-19 cases, we estimated the risk of new-onset FND within six months following infection.
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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Does COVID-19 increase the risk of FND?
Find out in our paper, now published in the @europeanjournalofneurology.ean.org
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Using EHR data from >2.7 million COVID-19 cases, we estimated the risk of new-onset FND within six months following infection.
Find out in our paper, now published in the @europeanjournalofneurology.ean.org
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Using EHR data from >2.7 million COVID-19 cases, we estimated the risk of new-onset FND within six months following infection.
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Resolving the Biomarker-Clinical “Mismatch” in Alzheimer's Disease
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Resolving the Biomarker-Clinical “Mismatch” in Alzheimer's Disease
A recent JAMA Neurology paper assesses the extent to which a measure of the tau protein in plasma known as p-tau217, drives the severity of Alzheimer’s disease, as measured by the Clinical Dementia Ra...
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December 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Resolving the Biomarker-Clinical “Mismatch” in Alzheimer's Disease
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📢 December issue now online featuring #asthma, #pneumonia, #sepsis, #epilepsy, #HIV, #PCOS, #depression, #UTI, and much more with our editorial on the future of prostate cancer screening
…all available #free #OpenAccess❗️
Read more here: www.thelancet.com/issue/S2589-...
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#MedSky
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Read more here: www.thelancet.com/issue/S2589-...
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#MedSky
December 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
📢 December issue now online featuring #asthma, #pneumonia, #sepsis, #epilepsy, #HIV, #PCOS, #depression, #UTI, and much more with our editorial on the future of prostate cancer screening
…all available #free #OpenAccess❗️
Read more here: www.thelancet.com/issue/S2589-...
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#MedSky
…all available #free #OpenAccess❗️
Read more here: www.thelancet.com/issue/S2589-...
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#MedSky
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While FND symptoms remain stable for most women during pregnancy, a subgroup experiences significant changes or new onset.
📚 Read the article “The Impact of Pregnancy on Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)” by Lehn et al. now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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📚 Read the article “The Impact of Pregnancy on Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)” by Lehn et al. now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@ean.org #WileyNeuro
December 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
While FND symptoms remain stable for most women during pregnancy, a subgroup experiences significant changes or new onset.
📚 Read the article “The Impact of Pregnancy on Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)” by Lehn et al. now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@ean.org #WileyNeuro
📚 Read the article “The Impact of Pregnancy on Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)” by Lehn et al. now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@ean.org #WileyNeuro
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Did the late Mark Hallett crack the code underpinning the physiology of free will? Free will is the brain’s constructed awareness that we are choosing our actions even though the brain initiates them before we consciously know it. Mark Hallett was instrumental in describing how it all works.
December 12, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Did the late Mark Hallett crack the code underpinning the physiology of free will? Free will is the brain’s constructed awareness that we are choosing our actions even though the brain initiates them before we consciously know it. Mark Hallett was instrumental in describing how it all works.
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Four yrs in the making, @greenjournal.bsky.social Practice Guideline Executive Summary on the Management of Functional Seizures. First @aanmember.bsky.social published guideline on any #FND variant. Brilliantly led by #BenTolchin. @fndportal.bsky.social
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
Neurology® Journals
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December 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Four yrs in the making, @greenjournal.bsky.social Practice Guideline Executive Summary on the Management of Functional Seizures. First @aanmember.bsky.social published guideline on any #FND variant. Brilliantly led by #BenTolchin. @fndportal.bsky.social
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
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Psychiatric conditions show high comorbidity & genetic overlap, challenging diagnostic boundaries. @andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social et al applied cutting-edge statistical & functional genomics to 14 childhood- & adult-onset disorders (>1M cases) towards neurobiologically valid mental health nosology.👇🧪
Mapping the genetic landscape across 14 psychiatric disorders - Nature
Genomic analyses applied to 14 childhood- and adult-onset psychiatric disorders identifies five underlying genomic factors that explain the majority of the genetic variance of the individual disorders...
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December 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Psychiatric conditions show high comorbidity & genetic overlap, challenging diagnostic boundaries. @andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social et al applied cutting-edge statistical & functional genomics to 14 childhood- & adult-onset disorders (>1M cases) towards neurobiologically valid mental health nosology.👇🧪
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Final version is out:
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"Neural cellular automata: Applications to biology and beyond classical AI"
@bhartl.bsky.social
Léo Pio-Lopez
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"Neural cellular automata: Applications to biology and beyond classical AI"
@bhartl.bsky.social
Léo Pio-Lopez
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December 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Final version is out:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1mEoa5bD-s...
"Neural cellular automata: Applications to biology and beyond classical AI"
@bhartl.bsky.social
Léo Pio-Lopez
authors.elsevier.com/c/1mEoa5bD-s...
"Neural cellular automata: Applications to biology and beyond classical AI"
@bhartl.bsky.social
Léo Pio-Lopez
Excited to share our new paper in @eclinicalmed.bsky.social:
www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
In this retrospective cohort study, we examined 147,595 individuals with FND. We investigated the prevalence of adverse life events nd psychosocial stressors, and how these relate to FND presentations.
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In this retrospective cohort study, we examined 147,595 individuals with FND. We investigated the prevalence of adverse life events nd psychosocial stressors, and how these relate to FND presentations.
Adverse life events and psychosocial stressors in functional neurological disorder: a retrospective cohort and case–control study using a large international electronic health record database
A record of adversities was at least 2·5 times more common in FND than in migraine,
and about 1·5 times more common than in GAD, varying by stressor type. Psychosocial
stressors were particularly comm...
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December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Excited to share our new paper in @eclinicalmed.bsky.social:
www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
In this retrospective cohort study, we examined 147,595 individuals with FND. We investigated the prevalence of adverse life events nd psychosocial stressors, and how these relate to FND presentations.
www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
In this retrospective cohort study, we examined 147,595 individuals with FND. We investigated the prevalence of adverse life events nd psychosocial stressors, and how these relate to FND presentations.
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To commemorate the bicentenary of Jean-Martin Charcot's life. Without him Neurology would be a different speciality.
@uclqsion.bsky.social @brain1878.bsky.social @masudhusain.bsky.social
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Charcot redux
Jean-Martin Charcot was born in Paris on 29 November 1825. To mark the bicentenary of his birth, the International Society for the History of the Neuroscie
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November 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
To commemorate the bicentenary of Jean-Martin Charcot's life. Without him Neurology would be a different speciality.
@uclqsion.bsky.social @brain1878.bsky.social @masudhusain.bsky.social
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@uclqsion.bsky.social @brain1878.bsky.social @masudhusain.bsky.social
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Many neurological and mental health conditions may persist because homeostasis can lock the brain and body in stable patterns that are hard to shift.
Have you tried switching it off and on again?
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Our new preprint explores the idea of a therapeutic reset.
Have you tried switching it off and on again?
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Our new preprint explores the idea of a therapeutic reset.
OSF
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December 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Many neurological and mental health conditions may persist because homeostasis can lock the brain and body in stable patterns that are hard to shift.
Have you tried switching it off and on again?
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Our new preprint explores the idea of a therapeutic reset.
Have you tried switching it off and on again?
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Our new preprint explores the idea of a therapeutic reset.
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A fantastic comprehensive review article w/ everything you need to know about Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. Johnson and Williams share that idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus is a common, frequently missed and potentially reversible neurologic condition in older adults. @nejm.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A fantastic comprehensive review article w/ everything you need to know about Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. Johnson and Williams share that idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus is a common, frequently missed and potentially reversible neurologic condition in older adults. @nejm.org
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@HarvardMedicine have done a great job with this article on FND, focused on the contribution of colleagues working there, including Barbara Dworetzky, David Perez and alumnus Mark Hallett.
magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/fun...
magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/fun...
November 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
@HarvardMedicine have done a great job with this article on FND, focused on the contribution of colleagues working there, including Barbara Dworetzky, David Perez and alumnus Mark Hallett.
magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/fun...
magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/fun...
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📣 Abstract submissions open Wednesday, Dec 3!
Submit your work for the 6th International Conference on Functional Neurological Disorder — June 13–16, 2026 in Baltimore.
🗓 Deadline: Feb 11, 2026 – 11:59 PM PST
Details: www.fndsociety.org/biennial-meeting/2026/abstract
🌍 Please help spread the word!
Submit your work for the 6th International Conference on Functional Neurological Disorder — June 13–16, 2026 in Baltimore.
🗓 Deadline: Feb 11, 2026 – 11:59 PM PST
Details: www.fndsociety.org/biennial-meeting/2026/abstract
🌍 Please help spread the word!
Abstract Submission | FNDS
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December 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
📣 Abstract submissions open Wednesday, Dec 3!
Submit your work for the 6th International Conference on Functional Neurological Disorder — June 13–16, 2026 in Baltimore.
🗓 Deadline: Feb 11, 2026 – 11:59 PM PST
Details: www.fndsociety.org/biennial-meeting/2026/abstract
🌍 Please help spread the word!
Submit your work for the 6th International Conference on Functional Neurological Disorder — June 13–16, 2026 in Baltimore.
🗓 Deadline: Feb 11, 2026 – 11:59 PM PST
Details: www.fndsociety.org/biennial-meeting/2026/abstract
🌍 Please help spread the word!
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How best to honor a giant and celebrate the late Mark Hallett’s legacy (1943-2025)? One way is for us to share his papers and teaching. This TMS Primer he wrote continues to be a big hit for all generations. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
How best to honor a giant and celebrate the late Mark Hallett’s legacy (1943-2025)? One way is for us to share his papers and teaching. This TMS Primer he wrote continues to be a big hit for all generations. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
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💪 Popkirov reports in that reduced grip strength reflects altered higher-order motor control, challenging its value as a biomarker of peripheral dysfunction.
📚 Read now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Neurology #MECFS
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📚 Read now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Neurology #MECFS
@ean.org #WileyNeuro
October 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
💪 Popkirov reports in that reduced grip strength reflects altered higher-order motor control, challenging its value as a biomarker of peripheral dysfunction.
📚 Read now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Neurology #MECFS
@ean.org #WileyNeuro
📚 Read now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Neurology #MECFS
@ean.org #WileyNeuro