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COVID-19: When It Leaves Us Voiceless and Powerless Farah Tan Li Yee; Arvind Rajagopalan; David Teo Choon Liang Conversion disorder—called functional neurological symptom disorder in the DSM-5—has roots that trace back to antiquity. The term conversion, originating from psychoanalysis...

BOLD signal variability as potential new biomarker of functional neurological disorders Schneider; Weber; Wyss; Loukas; Aybek BACKGROUND Functional neurological disorder (FND) is a common neuropsychiatric condition with established diagnostic criteria and effective treatments but for which the...

Understanding Functional Neurological Disorder: Recent Insights and Diagnostic Challenges Mavroudis, Ioannis; Kazis, Dimitrios; Kamal, Fatima Zahra; Gurzu, Irina-Luciana; Ciobica, Alin; Pădurariu, Manuela; Novac, Bogdan; Iordache, Alin Functional neurological disorder (FND), formerly called...

Prevalence of autoimmune diseases in functional neurological disorder: influence of psychiatric comorbidities and biological sex Anna Joseph; Gaston Baslet; Mary A O’Neal; Ginger Polich; Irene Gonsalvez; Andrea N Christoforou; Barbara A Dworetzky; Primavera A Spagnolo BACKGROUND Functional...

Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of functional psychogenic movement disorders Baizabal-Carvallo; Hallett; Jankovic Functional movement disorders (FMDs), known over time as “hysteria”, and “dissociative”, “conversion”, “somatoform”, “non-organic” and “psychogenic” disorders, are characterized by...

The involuntary nature of conversion disorder V. Voon, C. Gallea, N. Hattori, MD, M. Bruno, V. Ekanayake, M. Hallett BACKGROUND What makes a movement feel voluntary, and what might make it feel involuntary? Motor conversion disorders are characterized by movement symptoms without a neurologic...

Revisiting the jumping to conclusions bias in functional movement disorders Raquel Sainz-Amo; Jessenia Morillo-González; Jorge Gómez-Corral; Cristina Moreno; Araceli Alonso Cánovas; Juan Carlos Martinez Castrillo; Mark J Edwards; Daniel Hernández-Huerta; Isabel Pareés No abstract. Letter...

Abstract Objective: Neuroimaging studies have identified alterations in both brain structure and functional connectivity in patients with functional neurological disorder (FND). For many patients, FND emerges from physical precipitating events. Nevertheless, there are a limited number of case...

Neurometabolic Alterations in Children and Adolescents with Functional Neurological Disorder Charney; Foster; Shukla; Zhao; Jiang; Kozlowska; Lin Objectives In vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) was used to investigate neurometabolic homeostasis in children with functional neurological...

Drawing the Line Between Postacute Sequelae of COVID-19 and Functional Neurologic Disorders: A Daunting Clinical Overlap or Irrelevant Conundrum? Sales, Paulo M.G.;Greenfield, Melissa J.;Pinkhasov, Aaron;Viswanathan, Ramaswamy;Saunders, Ramotse;Huremović, Damir Coronavirus disease 2019...

Abstract Previous studies suggest that subjective distress in children with functional neurological disorder (FND) is associated with stress-system dysregulation and modulates aberrant changes in neural networks. The current study documents illness-promoting psychological processes in 76...

Tamar R Makin MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom John W Krakauer Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine...

Abstract Objectives To describe the clinical profile of a sample of Saudi patients with Functional Neurological Disorder (FND). Method A retrospective review of charts of FND patients seen from 2021-2023 at a neuropsychiatry clinic at an academic tertiary care center in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia...

Abstract In this article, the authors accentuate the signs and symptoms of conversion disorder and the significance of clinical judgment and expertise in order to reach the right diagnosis. The authors review the literature and provide information on the etiology, prevalence, diagnostic...

Objectives Individuals with a diagnosis of FND report experiencing stigma in medical settings, however, there is a paucity of research exploring their experiences in psychological services. The aim of this research was to explore experiences of accessing UK psychological services, from the...

Abstract The idea that a neurologist would do an 'FND clinic' or that functional neurological disorder (FND) could be a subspecialty of neurology would have been outlandish even 20 years ago but has become a reality in many places around the world. In this personal review, I reflect on 25 years...

Functional neurological disorder (FND) may mimic various kinds of neurologic diseases and may coexist with other neurologic disorders. In cases overlapped by FND, it might be challenging to distinguish symptoms induced by FND and those induced by other underlying neurological disorders...

Edwards, Chalder et al Abstract Background: Differences in affective processing have previously been shown in functional neurological disorder (FND); however, the mechanistic relevance is uncertain. We tested the hypotheses that highly arousing affective stimulation would result in elevated...

Abstract Objective Ictal injuries have long been considered typical signs of epileptic seizures. However, studies have shown that patients with functional seizures (FS) – also named psychogenic non-epileptic seizures – can also present these signs, misleading physicians and delaying a correct...

For abstract see post #3 This post is about a response to the paper. Multidisciplinary team management of functional neurological disorder in the community full letter https://wchh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pnp.806