Rowan’s Law Day Clinical Update on Sport Concussion: Free webinar on September 24th at 12:00pm ET.

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@sunnybrookhsc.bsky.social @parachute.ca @mattburkemd.bsky.social

🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Inform and Do No Harm: A Novel Approach to Reduce Negative Effects of Mental Health Awareness

My student Dasha Sandra tackled growing concerns about false self-diagnosis following awareness efforts and found a promising solution. Thread /1

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New paper with @mattburkemd.bsky.social, @davidlewisperez.bsky.social: Somatic Symptom Disorder after concussion/mTBI was associated with worse symptoms, comorbidity, and disability. SSD may be a useful framework for conceptualizing poor outcome from this injury.
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Outstanding #BrainMedicine conference led by #SaraMitchell & #SarahLevitt from the University of Toronto! Great to see momentum growing to erode silos & integrate neurologic, psychiatric, & rehabilitative perspectives for complex brain disorders. #SarahLidstone @mattburkemd.bsky.social

Very honoured to receive the 2025 AAN Norman Geschwind Prize for my research trying to better understand disorders and phenomena at the interfaces of Neurology and Psychiatry

Very grateful to all my mentors and colleagues @sunnybrookhsc.bsky.social @uoftmedicine.bsky.social
@harvardmed.bsky.social

Standing room only for 2 hour symposium on functional neurological disorder (#FND) at the #AAN2025 meeting - with a focus on functional seizures, post concussive syndrome / functional cognitive disorder & pathophysiology. #BarbaraDworetzky @mattburkemd.bsky.social

Great intro to a promising session here at #nans2025 by @mattburkemd.bsky.social - do you know all the famous 🇨🇦 neuroscientists - Penfield, Milner, Hebb, Jasper and many more

Could having a TBI ever be paradoxically beneficial?

We report a case of a patient with chronic refractory alcohol use disorder that went into remission following a TBI with a focal OFC hemorrhage 1/2

@commsmed.bsky.social @foxmdphd.bsky.social
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Very pleased to see this diagnostic aid for Functional cognitive disorders out. It needs further testing but i m feeling optimistic given the cumulative wisdom of the clinicians who kindly provided input into the development

Our new review looks at the evidence (or lack thereof) for identifying mTBI/concussion in post-acute polytrauma settings

Challenges re: legitimately missing a mTBI (distracting injuries) with risk of overDx as Sx (e.g. headache, brain fog etc) are non-specific
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Unbeknownst to me, my patient wrote about her struggles and recovery from a head injury triggering FND

Great to see a full page spread in @theglobeandmail.com on a topic that needs more attention

Her eloquent narrative is a perfect (and timely) complement to our recent BJSM piece. Article ⬇️

How common is FND?

‘Incidence and Prevalence of Functional Neurological Disorder: A systematic review’ – a new open access article in JNNP led by Sara Finkelstein with Clare Diamond, and @alancarson15.bsky.social
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New to #bluesky and excited to share a new publication at the interface of my two main clinical interests in neuropsychiatry.

"New Framework for the Continuum of Concussion and Functional Neurological Disorder" with @silverberglab.bsky.social in BJSM. Thread below 🧵

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