[S-32] Symposium 32

[S-32-3] Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) - an overview and "the assessment as treatment"

Jon Stone (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Professor Jon Stone is Professor of Neurology at the University of Edinburgh and Consultant Neurologist with NHS Lothian.

Professor Stone has promoted a new transparent multidisciplinary approach to understanding, diagnosing, and communicating Functional Neurological Disorder (FND).

In 2009 he made the first website (and now app) for patients with FND at www.neurosymptoms.org which is now widely used across the world. He has published over 300 articles in the area including large cohort, mechanism, and treatment studies. and led on new diagnostic criteria for FND in DSM-5 and ICD-11. He is the first Secretary and co-founder of the new international FND society (www.fndsociety.org).

His awards include the Jean Hunter prize from the Royal College of Physicians (2014), Royal College of Psychiatry President’s Medal (2017), the Ted Burns Humanism in Neurology Award from the American Brain Foundation (2020), and the John Walton Lecture Award from the Association of British Neurologists (2022).

www.neurosymptoms.org;
www.fndsociety.org;
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-jon-stone;
Twitter: @jonstoneneuro
Email: [e-mail]