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FNDS 2026 Abstract 178 landing page

Project Fionigan

A plain-language page about FND, communication access, and how Project Fionigan helps keep a patient’s story together when lived explanation becomes difficult.

Project Fionigan keeps fragmented FND information connected, source-linked, and human-readable when lived communication becomes difficult.

New to FND? Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) is a real neurological condition that affects how the brain sends and receives signals, which can cause problems with movement, speech, sensation, thinking, or seizure-like episodes. NIH/NINDS overviewOpens official NINDS page in a new tab — Fionigan overlay does not continue there..

Website status notice: This website is being built and updated in real time. It may contain mistakes, incomplete information, or features that are still being reviewed. It is provided for informational and all-inclusive accessibility-first continuity purposes only and is not medical advice, a diagnosis, or a substitute for care from a qualified clinician. The original source records remain the controlling record.

I am not learning how to have FND. I am learning how to have FND publicly.

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Public de-identification

Public version is de-identified

Patient-specific names, provider names, facility names, email addresses, record identifiers, exact identifying routes, and raw source records are removed or generalized in this public website version.

Important: the overlay does not travel to the official NINDS page

The Project Fionigan floating controls work on Project Fionigan pages. When you open the official NINDS website, you are leaving this site, so the Fionigan overlay cannot continue onto that external page.

Use the Fionigan FND landing page or NINDS source bridge if you want the overlay, read-aloud, search, Pages, and Follow yellow tools. Open the official NINDS page when you want the outside authoritative source.

The future version that works over outside websites is the browser-extension or sidecar-overlay path.

FND landing

Start with the Project Fionigan FND landing page if you want the plain bridge before opening NINDS.

Objective sourcesOpen FND landing

EXTERNAL SOURCE BRIDGE

NINDS Functional Neurologic Disorder page

This page connects Project Fionigan to the official NINDS Functional Neurologic Disorder information page without copying the full external medical page into this site.

The goal is to show how the Fionigan overlay model could eventually sit over an outside source page, helping with reading, search, navigation, and cognitive load while preserving the source.

How to use this source bridge

Open source: open the official NINDS FND page in a new browser tab.
Read here: use the Project Fionigan overlay to read this source bridge page.
Outside-page overlay: requires a browser extension, bookmarklet, or future sidecar overlay because a static Cloudflare page cannot inject controls into another website.
Source preserved: the official NINDS page remains the authority; Project Fionigan organizes access and context.

Open the official NINDS FND pageOpens official NINDS page in a new tab — Fionigan overlay does not continue there.

Why this belongs in the framework

NINDS describes FND as a neurological condition involving changes in how brain networks work rather than structural brain changes, and says physical symptoms are genuine. That public framing matters because Project Fionigan preserves context when systems, records, and communication fragment.

The source page also discusses seizure-like episodes, movement problems, cognitive issues, dizziness, speech difficulties, pain, fatigue, numbness, diagnosis, treatment, clinical trials, and resources. This makes it a useful public reference beside the lived medical and accessibility journey.

Three ways this could work

Now: link out to the official NINDS page and use Fionigan to organize what that source means in context.
Prototype: use a bookmarklet or browser extension to inject a small Fionigan overlay onto the NINDS page after the user opens it.
Future: use the accessibility-native sidecar overlay so Fionigan can help across allowed web pages and software screens.

Prototype bookmarklet

This is a prototype only. It may not work in every browser or every security setting, but it shows the direction: user-controlled overlay on an outside source page.

Project Fionigan overlay prototype

On desktop, this can be dragged to the bookmarks bar. On mobile, a future browser extension or sidecar app is likely the cleaner path.

How the overlay would travel in the future

A normal website cannot carry its JavaScript and floating controls onto an external medical website. The cross-site version requires a user-enabled browser extension, bookmarklet, or local sidecar.

This bridge keeps the source relationship clear while showing how Project Fionigan would frame, read, search, and navigate the source context.