Opinion Creating a “Brain-Mind-Body Interface Disorders” Diagnostic Category Across Specialties 2023 Maggio, Adams and Perez

Tri-balists, I reckon.

There's always the old-fashioned one: trick cyclists.

 

Surprisingly, it was trialist all along:

Monism, dualism, trialism, quadrialism and beyond.
Dualistic theories (dualism) defend two types of substances (for example, body and mind) or two worlds (earth and sky). Trialist theories (trialism) defend the existence of three types of substances or three types of realities.

So now we are faced with potential trialist trialists doing uncontrolled controlled trial (feasibility) trials - randomly.

Can anyone do a Venn diagram for that?

 

Here's a live action shot of one being made.

 

Just repeating for summary and emphasis —

And this tripe was on full display with the recent long Covid clinic report, where the patients were stratified according to their "self-efficacy" and "willingness to change".

 

So what are neurosurgeons doing when they resect a region of cortical dysplasia [1] that is responsible for intractable seizures. Surely, if it were the structure then the seizures would not transiently stop (or be fixed by removing the structural abnormality)?

'At some stage' looks to be now, with a move away from the term "functional" to this new term 'BMBID' — presumably as they recognise that the structural abnormality findings simply don't support the "nothing actually physically wrong, it's a software problem" explanation. Will this new term last 10 years? I'd bet against.

---
[1] Benefits and Risks of Epilepsy Surgery in Patients With Focal Cortical Dysplasia Type 2 in the Central Region (2022, Neurology)

 

So what is the current medical consensus about Encephalopathy’s that are not structural? Because as it stands the term Encephalopathy describes abnormal brain functioning as well as structure.

Can transient symptoms also arise from abnormal neurological functioning of the brain?