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The Boeing 747 School of Neurology: Shut Up, I'm the Pilot
Apparently, FND has neurological characteristics found nowhere else in medicine. Which ones? Excellent question. Unfortunately, instead of an answer, we've been offered a lecture about pilots, professional qualifications and AIDS denialism. Welcome aboard. Scientific evidence is apparently not included in the ticket price.
When Everything Looks Functional: Ten Claims, One Convenient Diagnosis
ME/CFS? Stop pacing. Long COVID? Think functional. POTS, MCAS or CCI? Perhaps FND. We examine ten controversial public statements from an FND-specialist physical therapist, the evidence behind them, and the potential consequences for patients.
The Weaponization of FND: Selma Blair, MS, and Hysteria With Better Branding
An FND-focused healthcare professional accuses Selma Blair of seeking sympathy, questions her MS history using dancing videos and declares her symptoms textbook FND. Apparently, hysteria got a rebrand, not a retirement.
When Ignorance Becomes a Diagnosis: FND Experts Warn of Diagnostic Failure
FND researchers acknowledge that weak functional signs lack specificity, neurologists disagree, and unfamiliar diseases risk being labelled functional. The diagnostic problem is hiding in plain sight.
Inside the Reasoning of an FND Professional
We examined repeated public claims about FND made by an allied health professional who treats the disorder for a living. Some are supported by the literature. Others go much further than the evidence allows. The recurring problem is simple: evidence seems much better at confirming FND than disproving it.
The Diagnosis of the Gaps: FND and the Problem of Phenotype Overlap
Davenport et al.’s comparison of Long COVID, ME/CFS and FND has drawn criticism, but some apparent errors expose a deeper problem: when FND can resemble almost every common neurological phenotype, definitions can determine the answer before the differential even begins.