Christoff’s Space

Someone help me understand this. Surely this cannot be normal?Something is seriously off here. These are public statements from an allied healthcare professional who treats FND patients for a living, yet the pattern comes across as deeply anti-patient and potentially dangerous. If you're so convinced that everything is

What we call FND may not be a distinct disorder at all, but a collection of common neurological presentations that occur across numerous diseases. Grouping these presentations under a single diagnostic label does not establish a shared underlying pathology or mechanism.

This hits close to home. My wife has an extremely high foot arch (pes cavus), a physical feature often associated with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT). We had genetic testing done, and the results came back normal. The catch? Only four genetic variants were tested, despite CMT being associated with over 100 different

There is a certain irony in KimH's criticism. By questioning how the researchers established misdiagnosis, she inadvertently raises the falsifiability problem surrounding FND itself. What evidence would actually be sufficient to overturn the original PNES diagnoses?If identifying an autonomic disorder capable of explai

Thanks for sharing this. What makes this particularly interesting today is how explicitly psychological the explanation of FND was:“For most people, the cause is psychological.”“Your brain is trying to protect you from having intolerable emotions or memories and it causes physical symptoms instead.”And later, when argu

What is striking is how familiar all of this feels. The terminology has changed, but many of the same questions remain: the historical stigma attached to the diagnosis, what the condition actually is, and how strong the evidence is for what we say about it.I have also always wondered whether the strong female predomina

Yeah, agreed. The parties involved are also looking into a possible future FND documentary.https://fndnope.org/posts?postId=97

Once the language shifts to "functional overlays," "functional components," triggers, and underlying causes that supposedly produce a functional disorder, the obvious question is whether this is still a primary disorder at all.If the same features show up across many illnesses, it may just be a common presentation, not

This is where I think FND can become a distraction.There is an important difference between recognising a functional presentation and treating FND as the reason for that presentation.Weakness, tremor, altered sensation, gait changes, variability and other so-called functional features may be things we observe. But once