TY - JOUR
AU - McLoughlin, Caoimhe
AU - Wang, Jing-Yi
AU - Do, Florence
AU - Kanbayashi, Takamichi
AU - Couturier, Anna
AU - Carson, Alan
AU - Stone, Jon
PY - 2025
DA - October
TI - An Exploration of How Functional Neurological Disorder Is Discussed on X (Twitter): Mixed Methods Study Using Social Network and Content Analysis
JO - Journal of Medical Internet Research
VL - 27
DO - https://doi.org/10.2196/73439
AB - BACKGROUND: Functional neurological disorder (FND) is one of the commonest conditions in neurological practice, describing symptoms like paralysis and seizures that can be severe and disabling. It is a diagnosis that is confirmed clinically rather than by scans or laboratory results. It is a stigmatized and widely misperceived condition, and since the emergence of long COVID, there has been some conflation of FND with other conditions, which has caused further misunderstanding. Social media has become increasingly popular for patients to learn and interact about their conditions, and the information that they seek and receive may be shaped by many factors. Prior to this study, the online discourse about FND had not been described in the literature.
PB - JMIR Publications
UR - https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/2c25e3f2-dd0e-4b80-888c-6d6d2ca75baa
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Digital health and technology
ER