Tim Nicholson
Neuropsychiatrist, King’s College London
- Reposted by Tim NicholsonOne week away from launching our 2nd annual @harvardmed.bsky.social course Brain Medicine: Integrating the Clinical Neurosciences. On demand viewing for 30 days. Nearly 150 people registered. Join us! @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social @foxmdphd.bsky.social learn.hms.harvard.edu/programs/bra...
- Reposted by Tim NicholsonI don't think first author @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social is very active here but new from us in Lancet Americas: Towards a Latin American neuropsychiatry www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Co-written between colleagues on what makes Latin American neuropsychiatry important, regionally and globally.
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- Reposted by Tim NicholsonI wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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- Just over 2 weeks left to submit your abstracts to the @fndsociety.bsky.social for the biannual FND international conference in Baltimore! Do come & support this new society for what must be medicine’s oldest & most enigmatic disorder! @https://www.fndsociety.org/biennial-meeting/2026/abstract
- 📣All welcome to join our @kingsioppn.bsky.social Neuropsychiatry meeting tomorrow on potential subtypes of delirium subtypes by Rowena Carter Teams link in below link!👇 This kicks off a term of themed of talks on the enigma that is Delirium @amaclullich.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/events/delir...
- Reposted by Tim NicholsonFindings in this @biologicalpsych.bsky.social CNNI paper are complementary to other results published using graph theory metrics in @braincomms.bsky.social. Check out this 20 minute lecture by Christi Westlin that connects the two papers! 8/8 youtu.be/0Zjs-7lf6fA academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
- Reposted by Tim NicholsonCheck out my newest Substack column on bending the cause of Parkinson's disease through improved sleep. Spoiler alert: your brain's 'glymphatic system' is more than just plumbing. michaelokun.substack.com/p/can-we-ben...
- Reposted by Tim NicholsonPaper accepted! 😊 "Reframing the Free Will Debate: The Universe is Not Deterministic" will appear in Synthese. Final version available here: arxiv.org/abs/2503.19672 - with Henry Potter and George Ellis
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- Reposted by Tim NicholsonOh, oh my. I need to go through this closely, and as noted earlier NN has a history. But my first read is wow www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Not many moments have felt like big steps in my kids’ generally gradual development, but this is one. Last ever bottle of Calpol (paracetamol = acetaminophen) going into recycling now youngest can swallow tablets Along with quivers of syringes, an ever present from infancy in all parents lives!😆
- Reposted by Tim NicholsonLong-Term Tofersen: Could targeting SOD1 change ALS trajectory? Spoiler alert: YES. Miller and colleagues describe in a new paper in JAMA Neurology the long-term outcomes of Tofersen in SOD1 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, integrating the VALOR trial and its open-label extension.
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- Such a superb, insightful & brave paper from @gailfdavies.bsky.social who so eloquently captures and describes what many of us have noticed about the evolution of symptoms as a result of patients’ interactions with the medical system👏👏💪🏻💪🏻 Straight into my top 10 of best papers ever on FND👌👌
- New paper outlining a spatial account of #FND and proposing an approach to the co-production of functional symptoms. It draws on my longstanding work on geographies of health knowledges, my recent health experiences, and emerging interdisciplinary conversations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- Amazing work led by the superb Rok ‘Rock star’ Berlot! 👏👏💪🏻💪🏻👌👌
- Excited to share our new paper in @eclinicalmed.bsky.social: www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl... In this retrospective cohort study, we examined 147,595 individuals with FND. We investigated the prevalence of adverse life events nd psychosocial stressors, and how these relate to FND presentations.
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- 📣Special @kingsioppn.bsky.social Neuropsych talk *this Friday 5th evening 5-6pm GMT* @ki.se ‘s Jakob Theorell on ‘clinical borderlands between dementia, catatonia & autoimmune encephalitis’👌 Teams link below & all welcome to join/share share with anyone interested!👍 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-c...
- Reposted by Tim NicholsonExcellent podcast by #DaraAlbert & #JeffRatliffe on a recent @greenjournal.bsky.social Education article. Targeting Self-Described Knowledge Gaps to Improve FND Education among Clinicians. Check it out. www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/... neurology.libsyn.com/website/targ...
- Reposted by Tim NicholsonThanks for the post @alancarson15.bsky.social - grateful that the Harvard Medical School magazine put together this spotlight on functional neurological disorder.
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- Reposted by Tim Nicholson🎙️ New podcast episode! We’re joined by Dr. Sarah Cope, Consultant Clinical Psychologist & accredited EMDR/CBT therapist. We cover: • Her path into FND • EMDR basics • EMDR for FND, incl. her NIHR-funded MODIFI trial
- Still a few tickets left for this event with the amazing @mikejay.bsky.social tonight 6-7.30 at @kingsioppn.bsky.social All welcome as Mike discusses his new book on the discovery of N2O & the birth of psychedelic science👌👌
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- 📣All welcome to special @kingsioppn.bsky.social event Fri 21st 18:00-19:30 IoPPN, Denmark Hill The ever brilliant @mikejay.bsky.social will be discussing his latest book Free Radicals on the discovery of nitrous oxide & the birth of psychedelic science Tickets £5 - free for KCL staff & students👇
- Reposted by Tim NicholsonOur Co-Director, Prof. @ammaralchalabi.bsky.social, gave a fantastic talk yesterday, hosted by @mndassoc.bsky.social, on #MND/#ALS genetics, why they matter and how discoveries are shaping new treatments. Thank you to everyone who joined in person & online! #MNDresearch #genetics
- 📣All welcome to special Neuropsychiatry event Fri 21st Nov IN PERSON @kingsioppn.bsky.social Denmark Hill Mike Jay discusses his book Free Radicals on the discovery of nitrous oxide & the start of psychedelic research Tickets £5 Free for KCL staff & students! estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-...
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- Don’t miss this tomorrow (Tues) 1-2pm UK time - Hamilton Morrin & Tom Pollak on their superb preprint that’s caught the world’s attention on AI psychosis 👌https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/delusions-by-design-how-everyday-ais-might-be-fuelling-psychosis-and-what-can-be-done-about-it
- Hi All - please consider signing this petition to get Michelle Mone stripped of her peerage c.org/JqNVKWTH46
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- Reposted by Tim NicholsonGlia of the heart’s nervous system — a Review by Katharina Scherschel, Hanna Wolf, Olujimi A. Ajijola, Kalyanam Shivkumar, Diana Lindner, Jose A. Gomez-Sanchez & Christian Meyer #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Tim NicholsonAn important study (IMO) looking at social dynamics re: FND on Twitter. People w FND face continual attack by a variety of groups who dismiss our condition and experiences - ranging from abusive clinicians to other disabled people. It makes it even harder to exist in public with this dx.
- Brilliant episode of ‘In our Time’ on hypnosis including @kingsioppn.bsky.social’s Quinton Deeley & Devin Terhune - such eloquent and clear discussions of super complicated topic & its history 👏👏 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
- All welcome to this talk on 22q syndromes today 1-2pm UK time - Teams link in this link and do forward on to others who might be interested👍 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/catch...
- Reposted by Tim NicholsonIdentification of five sleep-biopsychosocial profiles with specific neural signatures linking sleep variability with health, cognition, and lifestyle factors dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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- Reposted by Tim NicholsonA hidden evolutionary process has been uncovered in sperm — where certain harmful DNA changes are naturally favoured as men age. This gives some changes a competitive edge and increases the risk of genetic conditions. 🔬 Read here 👇 www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/hi...
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- New NHS England Neurology Service specification. ✅FND is one of seven core subspecialties ✅FND services MUST be provided in each specialised neurology centre. This is huge recognition of how common FND is in neurology - and unthinkable 20 yrs ago. 1/ t.co/XvGo0NIryA
- Reposted by Tim NicholsonWe're very happy to announce that the winner of this year’s Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize is ‘Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain’ by debut author, clinical neurologist and neuroscientist Masud Husain. #SciBooks royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...
- Reposted by Tim NicholsonPost doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5
- 📣Attention all genetics & neurodevelopmental disorders experts! A politically appointed GI surgeon has had a quick think about it & concluded all your work showing strong genetic contributions to ASD is wrong🤦♂️ If only he’d thought about this earlier he could have prevented you wasting your time…
- Superb work from @lilysmythe.bsky.social - 1st of what I’m sure will be lots of great papers from her @ukri.org MRC funded PhD investigating emerging complex and potentially important overlap & relationship between FND & ASD👏👏👊🏻👊🏻 Big e-records (TrinetX) study showing ⬆️ rates of comorbidity
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- Do join us for 1st @kingsioppn.bsky.social NREG meeting of the academic year on the complex/fascinating topic of visual snow All welcome - Teams link in this link 👍 www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/events
- …and those bloody Anglo Saxons, Beaker Folk etc😆 youtu.be/_kkOHtniTts?...
- Reposted by Tim NicholsonTwo flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in @Nature.com: 🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0 🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +
- @ammaralchalabi.bsky.social isn’t prone to hyperbole, so this seems big/great news & progress for this devastating disease💪🏻 Suspect I’m not alone in growing skeptical of such omics (esp machine learning) papers with findings that fail to replicate/deliver clinical impact Hopefully this different🤞
- This is a landmark paper showing a predictive test for #ALS #MND up to 40 years before onset and able to predict age of onset. Huge implications www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Tim NicholsonAre interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇
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- Great thread from @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social on a paper that took a lot of effort from a superb team to wrestle the evidence and many complexities of the relation between FND and migraine into shape! 👏👏💪🏻💪🏻
- Reposted by Tim NicholsonGreat work by veronica the app is now available - Mementum by cogniss
- Interesting study by Veronica Breira, @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social, @alancarson15.bsky.social on digital self-help for functional cognitive disorder. 💚🧡 #FND @neuroscienceirl.bsky.social @fndportal.bsky.social
- All welcome to this tomorrow (Tues) 1-2pm UK time….Sneak preview of ‘hot off the press’ results from very interesting trial of EMDR for FND👌👌 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/emdr-...
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