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The BNPA 37th Annual Conference

‘How do our Situations and Environment Shape Us’

Day 1 – Thursday 14 March 2024

Speaker Abstracts and Bios

• Effects of neurodevelopment and the home environment on behavioural outcomes following preterm birth (2 February, 2025) Free

  Lucy Vanes
• SUDEP: past, present and future (2 February, 2025) Free

  Rohit Shankar
• Environmental factors and social determinants of health in multiple sclerosis (2 February, 2025) Free

  Ruth Dobson

JNNP Lecture

• Rethinking neuropsychiatry: from scientific models to clinical narratives in the Latin American landscape (2 February, 2025) Free

  Jesús Ramírez-Bermúdez

BNPA Medal Lecture

• Autoimmune psychosis and the challenge for psychiatry (2 February, 2025) Free

  Belinda Lennox
• Psychiatric manifestations of autoimmune encephalitis (2 February, 2025) Free

  Adam Handel

Members’ Platform Presentations

• Mega-analysis of structural magnetic resonance imaging in 493 patients with functional neurological disorder (2 February, 2025) Free

  Matt Butler, Miriam Vignando, Jane Allendorfer, Thomas Hassa, Silvina Horovitz, Jacobus FA Jansen, Johannes Jungilligens, Wesley T Kerr, Lenny Marapin, Enrico Premi, Aleksandar Ristic, Teresa Serranova, Petr Sojka, Daichi Sone, Quinton Deeley, Jerzy Szaflarski, Ariel Schoenfeld, Mark Hallet, John M Stern, Noriko Salamon, Dawn S Elashiv, Jeannette Gelauff, Marina de Koning-Tijssen, Barbara Borroni, Mauro Magoni, Noriko Sato, Sara Paredes Echeverri, Ibai Diez, David Perez, Selma Aybek, Mitul Mehta, Timothy Nicholson
• Association between paediatric mild traumatic brain injury, subsequent psychiatric problems and mental health service use: a longitudinal cohort study (2 February, 2025) Free

  Grace Revill, Norman Poole, Christina Carlisi, Anthony S David, Vaughan Bell
• Investigating the impact of digital memory augmentation on accelerated long-term forgetting of autobiographical memory and psychological well-being in patients with transient epileptic amnesia (2 February, 2025) Free

  Katrina Thornber, Miranda Chang, Bryan Hong, Eliza McCann, Adam Zeman, Christopher R Butler, Morgan D Barense
• Evolution of diagnoses in ICD-11: the sample case of trauma- and stress-associated disorders (2 February, 2025) Free

  Andreas Maercker

Day 2 – Friday 15 March 2024

Speaker Abstracts and Bios

• Beyond labels: potential and challenges of AI for improved diagnostics and treatment in neuropsychiatry (2 February, 2025) Free

  Joseph Kambeitz
• AI for better brain and mental health (2 February, 2025) Free

  Zoe Kourtzi
• Pain in brains and robots (2 February, 2025) Free

  Ben Seymour
• A automated assessment of cognition based on language? (2 February, 2025) Free

  Daniel Blackburn
• The problem with mental health awareness (2 February, 2025) Free

  Lucy Foulkes

ANPA/BNPA Lecture

• Neuropsychiatry without reductionism: application of a biopsychosocial model (2 February, 2025) Free

  Derek Bolton
• Rapid onset functional tic like behaviours (2 February, 2025) Free

  Tamara Pringsheim

Members’ Poster Abstracts

• #7172 Habit reversal for tic-like vocalisations and functional coprolalia – a case report (2 February, 2025) Free

  Dipesh Patel, Jacqueline Foong, Panayiota Petrochilos
• #7173 Habit reversal: two-years on at a tertiary-care hospital (2 February, 2025) Free

  Dipesh Patel, Himanshu Tyagi
• #7222 Modelling NMDA receptor activity in focal epilepsy: a resting state study of EEG effective connectivity, towards a marker for epileptic seizures from unremarkable EEG traces (2 February, 2025) Free

  Laura Convertino, Johan Medrano, Aryeh Dworkin, Matthew Walker, Umesh Vivekananda
• #7160 The role of affective feedback on cognitive flexibility- a preliminary study (2 February, 2025) Free

  Aparajita Rai, Alekhya Mandali
• #7218 The neurocircuitry of body dysmorphic disorder: a review (2 February, 2025) Free

  Yihui Cheng, Himanshu Tyagi
• #7146 Preliminary fMRI findings investigating a predictive coding model for the implicit psychogenesis of eating disorders and functional motor disorders (2 February, 2025) Free

  Caroline Susan Mizen
• #7147 Wider health needs in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder from lived and professional experience: a qualitative framework analysis (2 February, 2025) Free

  John Headley Ward, Audrey McBride, Rebecca Gudka, Kieran Becker, Tamsin Newlove-Delgado, Anna Price
• #7171 Adults with intellectual disability: what do we know about visual and hearing impairments? A cross-sectional analysis (2 February, 2025) Free

  Adithri Pradeep, Traolach Brugha, Reza Kiani
• #7184 An in-depth qualitative study of factors contributing to serious incidents in an NHS psychiatry service for adults with learning disability (2 February, 2025) Free

  N Khodabux, R Kiani
• #7098 Head circumference trajectories in autism and psychotic experiences (2 February, 2025) Free

  Sarah A Ashley, Kate Merritt, Francesca Solmi, Pedro L Laguna, Abraham Reichenberg, Anthony S David
• #7206 Case presentation (2 February, 2025) Free

  Daniel Blackburn
• #7119 Current neurostimulation targets and techniques for the management of treatment resistant depression (2 February, 2025) Free

  Curtis Osborne, Petya Vicheva, Paul Shotbolt
• #7137 Factors associated with response completion of the hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS) in people with severe acquired brain injury: a logistic regression analysis of routine outcome data (2 February, 2025) Free

  Sara da Silva Ramos, Natalia Masztalerz, Rudi Coetzer
• #7189 Is sertraline effective prophylaxis against secondary depression in TBI patients? (2 February, 2025) Free

  Hannah Najabat-Lattif
• #7180 The role and impact of multidisciplinary interventions for attention deficits in paediatric cancer: a systematic review (2 February, 2025) Free

  Ashy Rengit
• #7181 Can experience in clinical neurology add value to psychiatric care? (2 February, 2025) Free

  Stephen Hardman
• #7140 What are the experiences of people with motor and/or sensory functional neurological disorder? A systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies (2 February, 2025) Free

  Cate Bailey, Arnas Tamasauskas, Abigail Bradley-Westguard, Peter Gilli, Norman Poole, Mark J Edwards, Niruj Agrawal, Timothy R Nicholson
• #7198 Functional neurological disorder in the perinatal period: a systematic review (2 February, 2025) Free

  Verónica Cabreira, Natasha Shivji, Caoimhe McLoughlin, Alexandra Lodge, Sanne Van Rhijn, Roxanne C Keynejad, Jan Coebergh, Alan Carson, Jon Stone, Alex Lehn, Ingrid Hoeritzauer
• #7090 Investigating the effects of COVID-19 on memory: the relationship between age and short-term memory (2 February, 2025) Free

  Aya Hammad
• #7164 Development of a self-help CBT-based digital intervention for functional cognitive disorder (Mementum app) (2 February, 2025) Free

  Verónica Cabreira, Lisbeth Frostholm, Jon Stone, Alan Carson
• #7215 The full house: the top five clinical tests for functional neurological disorders to teach non-specialists (2 February, 2025) Free

  F Fleming, A Noronha, O Ogundiya, D Jain, J Vijayanathan, T Rahman, P Khusakul, I Valnarov-Boulter, Z Malik, C Aldridge, TM Young
• #7182 A pilot study evaluating the outcomes of a therapeutic neuropsychiatry assessment for paediatric functional symptoms at great Ormond street hospital (GOSH) (2 February, 2025) Free

  Talia Eilon, Suresh Pujar, Abbie Nicole Smith, Prab Prabhakar, Anoushka Alwis, Kimberly Orme, Lucy Alderson, Bridget Black, Jacqueline Gordon, Sacha Evans
• #7214 What do patients referred for specialist physiotherapy for FND come with? A preliminary report from routinely collected questionnaire data from a specialist FND service (2 February, 2025) Free

  Margarida Alves, Emily Jay, Simon Harrison
• #7201 How stigma unfolds for patients with functional neurological disorder (FND); clinical interactions matter, but it’s not the whole story (2 February, 2025) Free

  Caoimhe McLoughlin, Brodie McGhie Fraser, Tim Olde Hartman, Alan Carson, Jon Stone
• #7139 Illness perceptions, experiences of stigma and engagement in functional neurological disorder (FND) – exploring the role of multidisciplinary group education sessions (2 February, 2025) Free

  Cate Bailey, Niruj Agrawal, Sarah Cope, Barnaby Proctor, Bridget Mildon, Matt Butler, Kate Holt, Mark J Edwards, Norman Poole, Timothy R Nicholson
• #7195 Implementing virtual group psychoeducation in the FND treatment pathway: a service evaluation (2 February, 2025) Free

  James D Stefaniak, Jacqueline Foong, Gary Price, Panayiota Petrochilos
• #7128 Using critical theory to improve clinical care for functional neurological disorders (2 February, 2025) Free

  Leïla Patsalides, Michael Moutoussis
• #7100 An unusual presentation of a functional movement disorder following vaccination for COVID-19: a case report (2 February, 2025) Free

  Hannah Newman, Michael O’Gara
• #7079 Sociodemographic and clinical risk factors for suicidal ideation and suicide attempt in functional/dissociative seizures and epilepsy: a large cohort study (2 February, 2025) Free

  Irene Faiman, John Hodsoll, Iman Jasani, Allan H Young, Paul Shotbolt
• #7207 Changes in referral patterns to an inpatient FND service: implications for clinical management of pain (2 February, 2025) Free

  A Baginski, J Lee, G Price, P Petrochilos, J Foong
• #7211 Teaching of functional neurological disorders (FND) across all UK medical schools (2 February, 2025) Free

  C Aldridge, Z Malik, I Valnarov-Boulter, P Khusakul, F Fleming, T Rahman, J Vijayanathan, D Jain, O Ogundiya, A Noronha, TM Young
• #7197 A case report of malignant catatonia associated with reversible MRI changes in the splenium of the corpus callosum (2 February, 2025) Free

  Fatima Numun Rahman, Alice Worrall, Joseph Rodrigues, Frederick Schon
• Development of a neuropsychiatric machine learning classifier to identify cases of secondary (‘organic’) psychosis (2 February, 2025) Free

  Graham Blackman, Cameron Watson, Vaughan Bell, Tom Pollak
• #7219 Neuropsychiatric correlates of delusional misidentification syndromes: a patient level meta-analysis of 422 cases (2 February, 2025) Free

  Georgia Gower, Maria Teixeira-Dias, Norman Poole, Vaughan Bell, Graham Blackman
• #7221 Imaging psychosis: quantifying abnormalities found on MRI head scans in first episode psychosis (2 February, 2025) Free

  Anam Waqar, Luke Baxter, Matthew Butler, Ahmed Abdelsamie, Sneha Barai, Ishaac Awatli, Theo Boardman-Pretty, Rebecca Phelps, Amelia Jewell, Thomas Reilly
• #7199 Indications for MR neuroimaging in first episode psychosis (2 February, 2025) Free

  L Baxter, M Butler, A Abdelsamie, A Waqar, S Barai, I Awatli, T Boardman-Pretty, R Phelps, A Jewell, T Reilly
• #7191 Cannabis withdrawal psychosis: a case series and systematic review (2 February, 2025) Free

  Edward Chesney, Thomas J Reilly, Fraser Scott, Ikram Slimani, Ananya Sarma, Daisy Kornblum, Dominic Oliver, Philip McGuire
• #7192 The value of liaison neurology within an NHS mental health trust: a service evaluation (2 February, 2025) Free

  John Headley Ward, Brendan Sargent, Adam Al-Diwani, Paul Harrison, Belinda Lennox, Adam Handel
• #7161 Tertiary specialist neuropsychiatry pilot: a service evaluation (2 February, 2025) Free

  Roopa Rudrappa, Nicholas Andrews, Katie French, Kaanthan Jawahar, Mohanbabu Rathnaiah
• #7078 The impact of psychiatric comorbidity on parkinson’s disease outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2 February, 2025) Free

  Ella Burchill
• #7183 The assessment and management of psychiatric symptoms in prion disease: an illustrative case series (2 February, 2025) Free

  Lucy Pauli, Rachel Williams, Jennifer Foley, Simon Mead
• #7178 Case Study: uncommon clinical presentation of auto immune encephalitis in an adolescent female (2 February, 2025) Free

  Karishma Lowton, Prinesh Miseer, Mvuyiso Talatala
• #7203 Examining the role of sleep and dreaming in functional neurological disorder (2 February, 2025) Free

  Sichen Yin, Kulveer Ghatora, Mahinda Yogarajah, Jan Coebergh
• #7223 Greater number of peri-ictal symptoms endorsed on forced-choice questioning predicts functional/dissociative seizures in patients presenting with transient loss of consciousness (2 February, 2025) Free

  Alistair Wardrope, Steve Goodacre, Daniel Habershon, Timothy J Heaton, Stephen J Howell, Markus Reuber
• #7125 Dissociative seizures in older adults (2 February, 2025) Free

  Nida Munawar, Maria Oto
• #7208 Changes in heart-brain integration precede psychogenic pseudosyncope (2 February, 2025) Free

  Rohan Kandasamy, Ineke A van Rossum, Mahinda Yogarajah