UK FND Network

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13 October 2026 01:36

Paper spotlight 🔬 Several brain regions showing group differences correlated with FND and somatic symptom severity. Subtype analyses revealed both overlapping and distinct patterns between functional motor disorder and functional seizure patients. lnkd.in/eAftqNYw

Scratch

scratch54.bsky.social

11 October 2026 17:32

I hope Scientific American reads this & informs their team that they need to cease using the term "lizard brain". I cringe every time I hear a scientist use it. It undermines whatever else they say.

Lisa Feldman Barrett

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11 October 2026 17:32

This video is dedicated to the brilliant scientist Barbara L. Finlay, my long-time collaborator and friend, who passed away last month. Her research "transformed the scientific understanding of how brains evolve, develop, and scale across species." www.lansingfuneralhome.com/obituaries/b...

Lisa Feldman Barrett

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11 October 2026 17:14

New video: "You Have One #Brain, Not Three." It dismantles the myth that you have a "lizard brain" for instincts, wrapped in a "limbic system" for emotions, topped by a "neocortex" for rationality. A cinematic lecture from filmmaker Van Yang. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZrv... #neuroscience

Biological Psychiatry

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11 October 2026 17:05

Neuroinflammation may contribute to maternal anhedonia by disrupting dopamine-dependent reward circuitry.