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“The hidden world of functional disorders”
Wednesday 19th August |3pm-4pm| Venue 372 - The Stand in the Square|
Tickets: £8 (7) @ www.edfringe.com and www.thestand.co.uk
How would you feel if you were paralysed or had blackouts, only to be told you were
imagining it, hysterical, or making it up? This is still the experience of some patients with
Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), a very real but misunderstood condition that affects
15% of UK neurology outpatients. In spite of being relatively common, FND is remarkably
hidden from public view. Dr Jon Stone brings this illness out of the shadows. Hear the
science and lift the stigma.
“The hidden world of functional disorders” is part of a series of shows focused around
provocative statements and debate - The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas. The cabaret is a
compilation of 24 interactive shows where challenging questions are posed and answers are
sought. It is curated by the Beltane Public Engagement Network, produced by Fair Pley and
compared by Comedienne Susan Morrison. The audience is encourage to speak up and
shake the grey matter while debating with some of Scotland’s fiercest intellectuals.
Dr Jon Stone is a Consultant Neurologist (NHS Lothian) and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the
University of Edinburgh, NRS Career Research Fellow and Founder of UK-FNS - UK wide research
group for functional disorders. He works with the Edinburgh team who carry out clinical research on a
wide range of functional disorders, looking at how common they are, why and how they happen and
trialing physical and psychological treatments. He is also committed to the promotion of local and
global policies to increase patient information, raise public awareness in the media, reduce stigma,
and provide better training, service, and research and classification structures.
Full Programme for the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas available below and at
http://codi.beltanenetwork.org/codi-2015/the-shows/ (see attached brochure for more details).
Contact Lucy Gibbons: codi@beltanenetwork.org for any queries or more information.
Date
Title
Performers
Fri 7
Soak up the sun and to hell with skin
cancer!
Richard Weller
Sat 8
Hearing loss or deaf gain?
Jemina Napier, Noel O’Connell
Sun 9
GM bacteria could save your life
Clare Taylor
Mon 10
Cervical cancer – you’re history!
Sarah Howie, Heather Cubie
Tue 11
Scotland in six swallies
Susan Morrison
Wed 12
Stop brushing your teeth!
Jan Clarkson
Thu 13
Women, science is still not for you!
Pam Cameron, Clare Taylor
Fri 14
Let’s turn on the smart light
Yunlu Wang, Aravind Venugopalan
Sat 15
Not so native now
Antonella Sorace
Sun 16
Alas, poor Darwin..?
Kate Cross, Lewis Dean
Mon 17
Fashion and the selfie
Mal Burkinshaw
Tue 18
Whose face is it anyway?
Felicity Mehendale
Wed 19
The hidden world of functional disorders
Jon Stone
Thu 20
Wild, Scottish and free
Ian Edwards
Fri 21
Skating on thin ice
Lorna Street, Phil Wookey
Sat 22
Swords into ploughshares
Jolyon Mitchell, Lesley Orr
Sun 23
The cocaine conspiracy
Karina Banda, Julieth Serrano and
Maria Fernanda- Torres
Mon 24
The war on drugs is harmful
Stephen Lawrie
Tue 25
Hug a thug
Lesley McAra and Susan McVie
Wed 26
Back to the statistical future!
Nicola Osborne, Helen Aiton
Thu 27
The Great British Brain Off
Alan Gow
Fri 28
What if Lance Armstrong had the right idea?
Derek Ball
Sat 29
Computers are only for geeks
Karen Petrie
Sun 30
Edinburgh should ban students
Mary Bownes