Tim Nicholson
@timnicholson.bsky.social
Neuropsychiatrist, King’s College London
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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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learn.hms.harvard.edu/programs/bra...
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...
learn.hms.harvard.edu
January 29, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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...
learn.hms.harvard.edu/programs/bra...
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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
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Co-written between colleagues on what makes Latin American neuropsychiatry important, regionally and globally.
Towards a Latin American neuropsychiatry
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Co-written between colleagues on what makes Latin American neuropsychiatry important, regionally and globally.
January 8, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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.
Towards a Latin American neuropsychiatry
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Co-written between colleagues on what makes Latin American neuropsychiatry important, regionally and globally.
Reposted by Tim Nicholson
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.
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.
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
academic.oup.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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.
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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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
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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
Stay free
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Take four minutes out of your day.
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Take four minutes out of your day.
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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
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
January 27, 2026 at 7:58 AM
⭐ 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
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
Reposted by Tim Nicholson
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
Do come & support this new society for what must be medicine’s oldest & most enigmatic disorder!
@https://www.fndsociety.org/biennial-meeting/2026/abstract
January 26, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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
Do come & support this new society for what must be medicine’s oldest & most enigmatic disorder!
@https://www.fndsociety.org/biennial-meeting/2026/abstract
📣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
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/delir...
Teams link in below link!👇
This kicks off a term of themed of talks on the enigma that is Delirium
@amaclullich.bsky.social
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/delir...
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.
www.kcl.ac.uk
January 26, 2026 at 6:02 PM
📣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
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/delir...
Teams link in below link!👇
This kicks off a term of themed of talks on the enigma that is Delirium
@amaclullich.bsky.social
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/delir...
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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
academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
Check out this 20 minute lecture by Christi Westlin that connects the two papers! 8/8
youtu.be/0Zjs-7lf6fA
academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
Inside the Predictive Brain: Neuroimaging Insights into Brain Circuitry in FND
YouTube video by David L Perez
youtu.be
January 13, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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
academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
Check out this 20 minute lecture by Christi Westlin that connects the two papers! 8/8
youtu.be/0Zjs-7lf6fA
academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
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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.
michaelokun.substack.com/p/can-we-ben...
Spoiler alert: your brain's 'glymphatic system' is more than just plumbing.
michaelokun.substack.com/p/can-we-ben...
January 19, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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.
michaelokun.substack.com/p/can-we-ben...
Spoiler alert: your brain's 'glymphatic system' is more than just plumbing.
michaelokun.substack.com/p/can-we-ben...
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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
January 15, 2026 at 7:52 AM
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
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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
Cheaper than a box of chocolates and better for you. Any royalties go to Parkinson’s research
#Neurologicalbirdsong
Murmuration amzn.eu/d/9zbsdOh
amzn.eu
January 15, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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
Cheaper than a box of chocolates and better for you. Any royalties go to Parkinson’s research
#Neurologicalbirdsong
Murmuration amzn.eu/d/9zbsdOh
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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...
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.
www.nature.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:08 AM
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...
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!😆
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!😆
December 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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!😆
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!😆
Reposted by Tim Nicholson
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.
December 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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.
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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
December 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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
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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.
Reposted by Tim Nicholson
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/...
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👌👌
Straight into my top 10 of best papers ever on FND👌👌
New paper outlining a spatial account of #FND and proposing an approach to the co-production of functional symptoms. It draws on my longstanding work on geographies of health knowledges, my recent health experiences, and emerging interdisciplinary conversations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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👌👌
Straight into my top 10 of best papers ever on FND👌👌
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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
www.fndsociety.org/biennial-mee...
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
www.fndsociety.org/biennial-mee...
2026 Conference | FNDS
www.fndsociety.org
December 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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
www.fndsociety.org/biennial-mee...
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
www.fndsociety.org/biennial-mee...
Amazing work led by the superb Rok ‘Rock star’ Berlot! 👏👏💪🏻💪🏻👌👌
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.
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...
www.thelancet.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Amazing work led by the superb Rok ‘Rock star’ Berlot! 👏👏💪🏻💪🏻👌👌
Reposted by Tim Nicholson
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
@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
December 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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
@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
📣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!👍
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-c...
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!👍
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-c...
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.
www.kcl.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
📣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!👍
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-c...
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!👍
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-c...
Reposted by Tim Nicholson
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.
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
neurology.libsyn.com/website/targ...
Targeting Self-Described Knowledge Gaps to Improve FND Education among Clinicians. Check it out.
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
neurology.libsyn.com/website/targ...
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 ...
www.neurology.org
December 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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.
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
neurology.libsyn.com/website/targ...
Targeting Self-Described Knowledge Gaps to Improve FND Education among Clinicians. Check it out.
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
neurology.libsyn.com/website/targ...