Jon Stone

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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 350 articles in the area including large cohort, mechanism and treatment studies. and led on new in-ternational diagnostic criteria for FND. 

He is currently President Elect of the new international FND society (www.fndsociety.org) which now has 1200 members and has received a number of awards including the Presidents Medal from the Royal College of Psychiatry and the Ted Burns Humanism in Neurology Award from the American Brain Foundation