Vision
? That's right. New theories of #FND from 
#neuroscience (especially #PredictiveCoding) suggest the symptoms of these disorders can be traced to basic brain processes, and will extend to other areas. We tested this remarkable hypothesis. 2/6pic.twitter.com/oKBOeWXT4b
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We looked at 4 aspects of vision:
#attention,#expectations,
visual sensitivity
, & #metacognition - updating an ingenious task first designed by@maxine_sherman@anilkseth Adam Barrett +@kanair 3/6pic.twitter.com/56fGCELqSs
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Thanks to the incredible
#MovementDisorder community in#Melbourne we were able to test 20 patients with#FND, 20 patients with organic movement disorders, & 20 carefully matched control participants. Without their help this wouldn't have been possible
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So what did we find?
#attention#metacognition and#expectations were the same between#FND and control participants... But
visual sensitivity
not so much. Watch the animation below for details #scicomm 5/6pic.twitter.com/MsdfQ6Sxz1Show this thread -
We take this as evidence for a difference in visual processing
between people with motor disorders (#FND or otherwise) and people that are similar to them in the general population. It's early days yet... But maybe those theories from
#neuroscience are onto something!
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One final note - all of the
#Matlab &#Rstats code used in this study is openly and freely available for others to use. We've also made all of the (de-identified) data for every participant available. Check my#github for details: https://github.com/julian-matthews/FMD-public-repository …#OpenScience 7/6pic.twitter.com/XOhU8HM84pShow this thread
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