Stoyan Popkirov
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Stoyan Popkirov
@popkirov.bsky.social
Neurologist interested in dissociative seizures and other functional neurological disorders
Proud to report that you can now preorder the second edition of my book on FND in German:

www.amazon.de/Funktionelle...
January 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
About 1/3 of people feel some tingling in their hand when looking at it intently for 20-30 s (left works better). This experience is an excellent starting point for explaining sensory gating, somatosensory amplification or central sensitization in simple terms.

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January 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Drawings by Sarah Wigglesworth. Wishing everyone pleasantly chaotic Christmas dinners.
December 20, 2024 at 12:00 PM
AI can basically tell you when you'll die from single ECG strips so I think it's safe to say they're way ahead of the EEG crew!

Imagine getting an ECG at the GP and it spits out your personal Kaplan-Meier curve 📉🥲

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
November 23, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Content validation of questionnaires is difficult to do but sorely needed! Look at those autumnal hues in the first column!
November 23, 2024 at 11:24 AM
New Viewpoint on Functional Movement Disorder in prodromal Parkinson's:

"Loss of dopaminergic neurons may increase likelihood of a mismatch between predictions of the sensory consequences of planned movement and actual sensory feedback."

movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
November 17, 2024 at 9:58 AM
I'll still take real Allen Ginsberg over his AI counterpart any day of the week. I think "non-expert poetry readers" in the study might have been "non-poetry enjoyers"
November 16, 2024 at 8:04 AM