シャドーイング練習: Breaking down functional movement disorders • 2025 MDS Congress - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to a special episode of the MDS podcast coming from the Movement Disorder Congress 2025.
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We are so privileged to have Professor Ibeck with us to discuss today's topic, Functional Movement Disorders.
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Professor Ibeck is a neurologist working at the University of Freiburg.
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To say Professor Ibeck is a specialist in FND is an understatement.
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We are very thankful to have you here today with us.
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I just listened to your talk on functional movement disorders, diagnosis and management.
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Before we dive into the content of functional movement disorders, can you maybe tell us a little bit about what got you interested in this topic?
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Sure.
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Thank you so much, first, for inviting me to take part in this podcast.
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It's a pleasure.
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And to talk about FND, my passion.
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So about how I got into FND, it was actually the fascination for these clinical presentations that I saw during my training.
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I had a mentor who was a movement disorder specialist, and he showed me these unusual cases because back then the diagnosis
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but he started showing me that there are actually positive signs.
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And I got so fascinated because we did not understand the pathophysiology.
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Mainly that was my interest.
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Why do these patients do these symptoms?
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And I wanted to know more.
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And I think that over the years, you've been such an amazing contributor to telling all of us about how that happens.
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And so thank you for the amazing work you've done.
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Yes, so FMD, functional movement disorder,
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is actually a group of symptoms where people present with abnormal movements or abnormal motor patterns such as weakness.
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And it's actually a subgroup of what we call FND,
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functional neurological disorder, because the same disorder can also express in different ways and be seen by other neurologists,
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like non -epileptic or functional seizures, for example, or speech disorder would be part of FMD but sometimes diagnosed by other specialists,
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or sensory problems, vision, hearing, so all the senses.
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And now more recently, we also defined two groups that belong to that, that are functional cognitive disorder and functional vertigo.
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That has also this name of triple PD, PPPD for postural, persistent, perceptual dizziness.
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So this is a whole group.
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But we're focusing today on FMD, right, movement and motor problems.
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Brilliant.
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Thank you.
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That gives us a great overview of where everything sits.
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would you say FMD is?
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FMD, again, in general has been shown to be one of the commonest cause to see a neurologist in different studies.
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So it's very common.
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It's been estimated also to represent up to a third of consultation in a general neurologist setting.
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Now that said, it can also be
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just FND or FND plus neurological disorder because it's not rare to see patients who can have both, right, coexisting.
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And FMD is the commonest subtype.
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So you mentioned that it can also be seen with a neurological condition.
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Are there specific neurological conditions that it's often seen with, or can it be seen with any neurological condition?
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So it can be seen with any.
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So you can have any
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symptom but there are some specific patterns that we now recognize
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and one that is of particular interest I think
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that we discussed in the session is the association of functional Parkinsonism with actually Parkinson's disease
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and it's very interesting because first the clinical presentation is not
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that easy we need to really carefully look for signs one of the signs we discussed in the video is
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that the slowness of movement that you can see in functional
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bit different in the sense that patient will be slow
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when you do the finger tapping but they won't show this loss of amplitude
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that is typical of the bradykinesia that we see in Parkinson's.
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So these help you make the diagnosis of functional Parkinsonism.
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And it's been shown now in a few case series that patients can have both, but when they have both, it tends to be that they start with the functional Parkinsonism,
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sometimes years before we actually find or develop the signs and symptoms of Parkinson.
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but they might develop the disease.
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This is an example where the role of the neurologist is really very important.
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So over the last few years, there's so much research that has been coming out around FND.
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How do you feel that the medical community has responded to this research?
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Do you feel there are still some controversies around it?
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Yeah, so thank you indeed for raising this point
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because we see big lag between what's shown in science and the literature and then the clinical application.
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And here I'm referring to this whole evidence from the literature that now we can make the diagnosis with positive signs,
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that there are a lot of positive signs that have been validated in studies showing a good specificity, showing a good inter -rater reliability,
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and yet In clinical practice, it takes years before neurologists actually know these signs or use them.
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And yeah, but I guess it's normal in the field, right?
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But it takes years until clinical research comes into clinical practice.
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And we need then to bridge that gap.
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A lot of conferences teaching, postgraduate teaching, pregraduate teaching.
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I think if we teach the young medical doctors early how to make the diagnosis, we won't have this issue anymore.
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So to everyone listening, if you understand the ins and outs of diagnosis, go out and share with your colleagues.
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So when making the diagnosis, do you ever discuss the prognosis with the patient?
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Not necessarily.
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I really wait for the patient to ask.
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And we often have patients who ask.
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And then my answer is that for an individual person, we cannot predict, we're not good at it.
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But then I cite studies and I say that roughly 40 % of patients will still have symptoms, but that it really depends.
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And I then tailor my explanation to what I see, because if I see a patient with acute symptoms,
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I tend to be more encouraging and positive because from experience, not really from literature, but from experience, we know that they tend to get better quicker.
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When we see patients with very chronic symptoms, I also want them to have realistic expectations, so I tell them that it will take months or years.
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And again, it's not to discourage them, it's to make a good treatment plan with them that is realistic.
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Thank you.
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And again, when explaining the diagnosis to your patients, are there any big no -nos that you would say,
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"Stay away from everyone, please." Yes, I think there are two words that we should stay away from.
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It's to refer to a functional disorder on one hand and oppose it to a real disorder.
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So the term real disorder should not be used.
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Or genion is the other one to say this is a genion tremor, whereas this is a functional tremor.
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This is really not helpful because it conveys really a sort of hierarchy of symptoms and that FND would be less important.
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And we're talking to people who suffer on a daily basis with the symptoms.
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And other than that, I think we can use term.
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Of course functional is the most appropriate to me
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because it's very descriptive but what matters more is our attitude
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and our behavior and the respect we show to our patient
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and we show them that we not only believe them
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but we have seen many other patients like them
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and it's not rare and we know what we're talking about and this reassures the patients a lot.
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Brilliant, thank you.
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So then moving towards management, how beneficial is it to see or to refer a patient for treatment as early as possible?
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It's very important.
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Going back to the prognosis, if we diagnose patients early and they can get into treatment early, they will get better.
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So this is really the big effort that I've been trying to do in my country, in the different hospitals I've been working for, but also to advocate internationally.
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These patients should be diagnosed really early so that we can influence the prognosis.
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And then in terms of management, how important is an interdisciplinary team?
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It's key.
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To have an interdisciplinary team is key.
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And we still see a lot of centers around the globe where neurologists feel very isolated
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because they're able to make the diagnosis, but then they don't know where to refer.
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They don't have a good physio around.
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They don't have a psychiatrist or psychologist.
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We see the other side where it's the psychiatrist that say, we don't have any neurologists interested in the team.
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Or I've also talked to some OT, occupational therapists, that said, but I need a neurologist to certify it.
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So it's really key that we all work together and that we develop then this teamwork.
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Also because now there are studies that show
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that we can really improve the patient's outcome with interdisciplinary treatment being outpatient setting or inpatient setting.
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Both have now come in studies.
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Thank you.
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I really appreciate your time today and for sharing your knowledge with our listeners.
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Thank you also for your amazing presentation at the Congress.
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And to everyone that's been listening, thank you for opening your mind.
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Thank you.
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clinical practice.
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このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

このC1レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「Breaking down functional movement disorders • 2025 MDS Congress」を教材にしています。 繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです:patient, functional, disorder, neurologist, symptom。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が123文、単語が1585語あります。 音声の長さは11:00です。 話す速さは1分あたり約144語で安定しており、シャドーイングしやすいペースです。 単語の82%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。

この動画の重要語彙

動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語発音意味
symptom 名詞/ˈsɪm(p)təm/症状, 症候
diagnose 動詞/ˈdaɪ.əɡˌnoʊs/診断する
tremor 名詞/ˈtɹɛmɚ/震え, 揺れ
psychiatrist 名詞/ˌsaɪˈkaɪ.ə.tɹɪst/精神科医
abnormal 形容詞/ˌæbˈnɔɹ.ml̩/不自然, 異常
amplitude 名詞/ˈæm.plɪ.tud/広さ
certify 動詞/ˈsɜː.tɪ.faɪ/認証する
coexist 動詞/ˌkoʊ.ɪɡˈzɪst/共存する
dizziness 名詞目眩, くらくら
fascinate 動詞/ˈfæsɪneɪt/魅惑する
pathophysiology 名詞病態生理学
postgraduate 名詞/ˌpəʊstˈɡɹædju.ət/院生, 研究生
slowness 名詞遅さ, 遅慢
subgroup 名詞/ˈsʌbˌɡɹuːp/部分群, 亜群
teamwork 名詞チームワーク

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語発音意味
come out 動詞/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/出る
go out 動詞出る

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型動画での表現
現在完了進行形 have/has been + -ing — 以前に始まり今も続いている動作has been coming · I've been trying · that's been listening
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係しているyou've been · you've done · has been shown
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てるbe seen · has been shown · been estimated

注意したい発音

話し手はdon't, we're, I'veなど、短縮形や弱形を17回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

  • 「th」の音: thankful /ˈθæŋkfəl/, therapist /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/
  • 「sh」と「zh」の音: fascination /fæsɪˈneɪʃən/, outpatient /ˈaʊtˌpeɪʃ(ə)nt/, reassure /ˌɹi.əˈʃʊɹ/, impatient /ɪmˈpeɪʃənt/, occupational /ɑkjuˈpeɪʃənəl/
  • 長い単語(アクセントの位置に注意): neurological /nɝəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/, psychiatrist /ˌsaɪˈkaɪ.ə.tɹɪst/, epileptic /ˌɛpɪˈlɛptɪk/, fascination /fæsɪˈneɪʃən/, perceptual /pə(ɹ)ˈsɛp.tʃ(u)əl/

日本語話者が苦手な音:

  • /r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: abnormal /ˌæbˈnɔɹ.ml̩/, perceptual /pə(ɹ)ˈsɛp.tʃ(u)əl/, postural /ˈpɑst͡ʃəɹəl/, disclosure /dɪsˈkləʊʒə(ɹ)/
  • /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: validate /ˈvæl.ɪ.deɪt/, vertigo /ˈvɝtɪɡoʊ/, descriptive /dəˈskɹɪptɪv/, convey /kənˈveɪ/
  • /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: certify /ˈsɜː.tɪ.faɪ/, fascinate /ˈfæsɪneɪt/, fascination /fæsɪˈneɪʃən/, specificity /spɛsɪˈfɪsɪti/, thankful /ˈθæŋkfəl/

この動画での練習方法

  1. まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
  2. 通常の速度で一文ずつシャドーイングし、話し手のリズムに合うまで繰り返します。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。symptom, diagnose, tremorなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

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