Sounds great - I'll stay tuned!

This sounds super cool! Any chance there'll be a livestream or a video recording?

Our pilot study is the first to explore the role of metacognition in functional seizures. Still a lot of work to do! Read the full paper here: tandfonline.com/eprint/PPSNW...
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We also found that metacognitive uncertainty was related to illness duration, seizure frequency, and anxiety levels. This implies that metacognition may play a role in the pathophysiology and maintenance of functional seizures.

What did we find? Patients remembered and were more confident about the emotional and action-related (button-press) pictures. This suggests that emotional and behavioral engagement enhance memory encoding and metacognitive judgments.

Specifically, we used a combination of two tasks: One where patients we asked to press a button or not depending on the color of a frame around an emotional or neutral picture, and another where they had to recall those pictures and rate the confidence in their memory.

@popkirov.bsky.social and I wanted to understand this better - so we used a task to investigate the relationship of action, affect, and metacognition in functional seizures. Results are now out in the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology! (tandfonline.com/eprint/PPSNW...)