Keynote Speakers

Professor Markus Reuber

I am a clinical academic based in Sheffield in the United Kingdom. My clinical work has focussed on the treatment of patients with complex seizure disorders. I have also helped to establish the Sheffield Neuropsychotherapy service. In my research, I have been particularly interested in the phenomenology and treatment of epileptic and functional / dissociative seizure disorders. I am also interested in communication between doctors and patients – including in how subjective experiences turn into medical disorders. In my research I have pioneered the use of sociolinguistic methodologies to address medical questions. I received the ILAE Ambassador for Epilepsy Award in 2021. I am Editor-in-Chief of Seizure and a member of the ILAE Functional / Dissociative Seizures and Epidemiology of Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Epilepsy Task Forces.

Professor Jon Stone

Professor Jon Stone is Professor of Neurology at the University of Edinburgh.

Since 1999 Jon, along with his colleague Alan Carson, has promoted a new transparent, pragmatic and multidisciplinary approach to FND which had been a neglected and stigmatised problem.

In 2009 he made the first website (and now app), the Neurosymptoms FND guide, for people with FND at www.neurosymptoms.org which is now widely used across the world. He has published over 400 articles in the area including large cohort, mechanism and treatment studies. and led on new international diagnostic criteria for FND. 

He is currently President-Elect of the international FND society (www.fndsociety.org). He has received a number of awards, including the President's Medal from the Royal College of Psychiatry, the John Walton Award from the Association of British Neurologists and the Ted Burns Humanism in Neurology Award from the American Brain Foundation.