📣Fantastic FND Society course on diagnostics, aetiology & Mx of functional seizures+ epilepsy

13-14 June online (or in person Boston USA!)

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Is it too early to award the ‘Scientific Figure of the Year’ award?

Even if it is I doubt this ‘Your brain on football’ Figure will be beaten!

…erm, & why not fund NHS addiction services to do this treatment where there’s real expertise & no profits made

What does 3rd sector mean here? Private? Charity?!

Treating addictions needs skill, experience & persistence that the NHS had lots of until Tories systematically decimated services

…and at the end of the 2nd day of this conference Gareth Owen gave Quinton a run for his money for the most cerebral and broad polymath in clinical neurosciences with his inaugural Prof lecture on ‘Psychiatry & Human Nature: Classic & Romantic Perspectives’ - topic of his book out this Spring!👏 👏

Many other superb talks but I particularly liked mathematician Nathan Kutz’s - taking very broad & insightful view of big data in neuroscience using Shallow Recurrent Decoders

V. impressive stuff I could only just follow - even with his exceptionally clear explanations..stuff to read more on!

My favourite bit (which was quite possibly ‘peak Quinton’ - if you know Quinton you’ll know what I mean!) was him walking us through his collaboration with Ancient Historians investigating sensory processing with a study of VR experiences of visiting the oracle of Zeus at Dodona in 465 BC😆

Was at some amazing events last week; the type you feel privileged are part of your job & you’d pay to be at/part of

The @royalsociety.bsky.social meeting on FND had many highlights but this Quinton Deeley talk on hypnosis & FND was thumping academic tour of neuroscience, philosophy & humanities👌

“Sir, we’ve found the rebel bass”

(From @BobGolen on X)

Moving this and some of my favourite old content over here!

I’m going to award a prestigious international prize (a twix - size/type of your choice) to the person with the longest paper gestation

There are going to need to be rules & regulations

Closing date for applications midnight GMT 1st March 2024