Director, UCL Institute of Mental Health
London
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Read more - 'Into the Abyss: a neuropsychiatrist's notes on troubled minds'
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Come to the Great North Neuropsychiatry Conference 2026, where we will also be celebrating the British Neuropsychiatry Associations (BNPA) 40th Anniversary
Thurs 5th November 2026, Grand Hotel, Gosforth Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 5HN
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Inside the Lyme Disease industrial complex...where flawed tests sold by private companies lead to questionable diagnoses and harmful treatments
My latest for @unherd with @mgtmccartney
Connections: A Story of Human Feeling by Karl Deisseroth - review by Anthony David literaryreview.co.uk/knowing… via @Lit_Review
Connections: A Story of Human Feeling by Karl Deisseroth - review by Anthony David literaryreview.co.uk/knowing… via @Lit_Review
Fair point. Kandel was no longer working clinically when he did his ground breaking scientific work, but still.
Egas Moniz - neurosurgeon - won it for psychosurgery (& angiography); Arvid Carlsson - pharmacologist - for studies on dopamine.
jnnp.bmj.com/content/70/1/1
needs updating
Congratulations - esp @KarlDeisseroth
Only 2nd psychiatrist in history ever to be so awarded.
The 1st Wagner Juaregg (an avowed Nazi) got it for malaria therapy for neurosyphillis - best forgotten
BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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The latest episode of the Brain podcast-out now!
Listen at: traffic.libsyn.com/ec9881f0-…
Featuring discussion with senior author Professor Gültekin Tamgüney on: Vaccines mimicking conformational epitopes on α-synuclein fibrils provide immunity to Parkinson’s disease
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Sharing new @BiologicalPsyc1 structural brain MRI mega-analysis in Functional Neurological Disorder. This international effort was led by #MattButler & @Tim_R_Nicholson in collaboration with the @FNDSociety Neuroimaging SIG. Check it out. @KingsIoPPN biologicalpsychiatryjournal.…
Come to the Great North Neuropsychiatry Conference 2026, where we will also be celebrating the British Neuropsychiatry Associations (BNPA) 40th Anniversary
Thurs 5th November 2026, Grand Hotel, Gosforth Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 5HN
@SecretaryINA @The_BNPA @vaughanbell
📄Professor Jon Stone has published commentary in response to the article:
Functional neurological disorders: misunderstanding “Dualism” by Anton Scamvougeras &David Castle
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Check out the 🔗 below to read his response:
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Artificial intelligence judged by No Intelligence
Trump says AI safety fears a 'hoax' as he rejects calls for greater safeguards bbc.in/4xRh0w9
I propose:
...It is a narrative that often highlights levels of understanding despite the challenges of serious mental disturbances and should be incorporated into clinical training.
... but the relationship between (compliance and insight) is not straightforward and not be considered circular.
6. A more nuanced description of insight emerges when we look at what psychiatrists and others mean when they talk about insight....
4. A simple definition of ‘lack of insight’ (like delusion) is difficult if not impossible to achieve due to the requirement to contextualise such mental phenomena in question within a social and cultural milieu.
5. Compliance with treatment may follow from insight into illness..
Insight cont/
2. While mere ‘agreeing with the doctor’ is an inadequate definition it is not unreasonable starting point
3. Part of the construct is a (meta)cognitive style which when lacking, tends towards excessive certainty and rigidity.
Coming out "What we talk about when we talk about insight" J Humanistic Psychol.
doi.org/10.1177/002216782614…
I propose:
1. It does not fit with a narrow version of the ‘medical model’, so let us use a medical model which is deeper and has real explanatory power./
Anthony David retweeted
Psychomotor retardation looks a bit similar to parkinsonism. In this paper, we examine whether it might be a prodromal feature as part of depression: doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2026.1….
Really enjoyed this including playing random games in of footy while abroad
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Right, we loved recording it, and the subscribers loved listening to it, so Dreamland #27 – Paradise with Yesterday's Newspaper: The Joy of Watching Football on Holiday – is now free to listen to!
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The Great North Neuropsychiatry Conference - 5th November. It will be fireworks!
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