@haariet

Neurology trainee and researcher, interested in cognition & functional disorders

 Bristol, England
Joined June 2009
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Jon Stone@jonstoneneuroAug 17
Cardiologists and cardiac surgeons share the same organ and the same ICD-11 category. Our new editorial @thelancet.com explores what would happen if neurologists and psychiatrists had a joint classification in ICD as well. 1/ zurl.co/M5d1o
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kelsey sutton@kelseytsuttonJun 18
quit my job today and a sales guy out of Germany sent me an incredibly heartfelt slack thanking me for teaching him the phrase “does a bear shit in the woods” when responding to something that is an obvious yes 😭
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Anish K Patel@anish_k_patelMar 2
One of the most misunderstood parts of medicine: Why health professionals ask you to repeat your story. When we take a history, we’re recognising patterns and testing possibilities. What is causing this? How serious might it be? What can I do to help? 1/n
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PSA screening media coverage is currently very poor. Various charities are not helping but instead adding to the confusion and hype. The Times today carries another high profile individual story of how they were "absolutely" saved by screening with PSA testing.
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Functional Neurological Disorder takes its rightful place as one of 7 main Neurology specialisms - now the challenge is to provide resources for the new services mandated in this service specification
The Neurological Alliance@NeuroAlliance13 Aug 2025
NHS England sets out national standards to improve neurology care for adults in landmark specification. Learn more here: bit.ly/3J7MKZD #Neurology #BackThe1in6 #NHS
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Meeting more of our fab funded researchers at #AAIC25! Dr Lindsey Sinclair from @BristolUni with her poster on differential gene expression in depression and #AlzheimersDisease Look out for Lindsey's #FameLabUK talk on @YouTube coming soon!
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oh for goodness sake @RishiSunak @Keir_Starmer ! if there was data showing a clear benefit of screening it would already be being done. this is not the way to generate evidence based safe healthcare. the UK National Screening Committee exists - use it!
Rishi Sunak
@RishiSunak26 Feb 2025
Prostate cancer is now the UK’s most common cancer - yet there’s still no national screening programme for the most at-risk groups. Today, I asked the Prime Minister to change that 👇

Too many men are dying of embarrassment over prostate cancer.

Today, I called on the Prime Minister to ensure Britain has a national screening programme for prostate cancer - a vital step to catching the disease earlier and saving lives.

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As psychiatrists, we’re at the frontline of assessing mental state, capacity, and potential coercion in complex assisted dying cases. Our expertise is going to matter for safeguarding vulnerable people. Why exclude the Royal College of Psychiatrists from these vital discussions?
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The move to 24/7 mechanical thrombectomy provision for ischaemic stroke: an observational study of the impact on referrals, activity, procedural efficacy, and safety at a supra-regional centre academic.oup.com/pmj/article…

The move to 24/7 mechanical thrombectomy provision for ischaemic stroke: an observational study of...

AbstractBackground. Health systems are striving to improve delivery of mechanical thrombectomy (MT) for ischaemic stroke. With the move to 24/7 provision,

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#Mementum App for #Functional cognitive disorder, our feasibility trial in NHS Scotland is just finishing, watch this space 👀 Big thanks to my team @AlanCarson15 @jonstoneneuro, Lisbeth Frostholm, all stakeholders and incredible patients, as well as the whole @CognissHQ team
Cogniss@CognissHQ3 Oct 2024
✨Meet Verónica Cabreira @Veronicabreira, a neurologist in training & researcher at the Uni of Edinburgh, building the 1st potentially scalable treatment for patients with #FunctionalCognitiveDisorder, a condition that affects millions worldwide. 🌍 #DigitalHealthMakers #nocode
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Jon Stone@jonstoneneuro22 Sep 2024
“In order to understand brain fog we need to ask more questions”. Here’s a key figure from @lauramcw ‘s excellent review
Alan Carson@AlanCarson1522 Sep 2024
Brain fog | Practical Neurology. For anyone interested in cognition if you read one ‘how to do it’ paper this year, make it this one by my brilliant colleague ⁦@lauramcw⁩ pn.bmj.com/content/early/202…
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Big news, everyone! The new Ashley Down Rail Station finally has an opening date: Saturday, September 28. This is going to make such a difference to transport in Bristol 🚂
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Led by the wonderful Becky Gould, we show Acceptance and Commitment Therapy improves quality of life in people with MND. Open access in Lancet today. Wonderful to be part of a trial with a positive result for once! sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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How would 45 expert clinicians from 12 countries approach seven clinical vignettes from memory clinics? It turns out clinical positive characteristics alone allow a very clear discrimination between FCD and neurodegeneration. Our #delphistudy is now out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Perspectives on the diagnosis and management of functional cognitive disorder: An international...

Background Current proposed criteria for functional cognitive disorder (FCD) have not been externally validated. We sought to analyse the current perspectives of cognitive specialists in the diagno...

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My letter in the Times has generated a lot of interest so I thought it might help if I described the time line for reaching this frame of mind. I attach a copy of the letter and then run through a series of tweets to tell the story.
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More great normative modelling work, this time in LBD led by @RohanBhome, with @rimonaweil @serena_verdi @amarquand and a brilliant team of collaborators: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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NHS England » Dementia programme and preparation for new Alzheimer’s disease modifying treatments england.nhs.uk/long-read/dem…
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🚨Calling all medically-qualified people with (current or former) experience of clinical academia. 🚨 @The_MRC are seeking to understand the decline in the UK clinical academic workforce & are seeking input. Please take the time to fill out their survey: forms.office.com/pages/respo…

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🎉 our next advert is out for our expanding FND team in Bristol 🗣️ Psychologist, band 8b This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the direction of our fully comprehensive FND team! Job description etc - nbt.nhs.uk/careers/current-v…

Current Vacancies | North Bristol NHS Trust

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Jon Stone explains why “incongruence” is an unhelpful and unnecessary label when diagnosing FND. I totally agree!
Jon Stone@jonstoneneuro12 Jan 2024
‘Incongruence in FND - time for retirement’ - my new short neuromythology paper for @PracticalNeurol - short thread 1/ pn.bmj.com/content/early/202… FREE download link here bit.ly/48RQANO
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