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Abstract Objective There are reports of functional neurological disorder (FND) developing after anaesthesia, though separating any aetiological role from other possible factors is challenging. We aimed to systematically review all published cases of post-anaesthetic FND to see if any common...

Summary Functional neurological disorder is common in neurological practice. A new approach to the positive diagnosis of this disorder focuses on recognisable patterns of genuinely experienced symptoms and signs that show variability within the same task and between different tasks over time...

Objectives(s): To characterise the clinical profile, aetiology and treatment responsiveness of ‘Australian Lyme’, or Debilitating Symptom Complexes Attributed to Ticks. Methods: Single-centre retrospective case analysis of patients referred to the Infectious Diseases Unit at Austin Health – a...

Abstract Objective: Psychosocial trauma was associated with developing conversion disorder (also known as functional neurological disorder) before Freud, though why a particular symptom should arise is unknown. We aimed to determine if there was a relationship between trauma type and symptom...

Paywall, https://www.epilepsybehavior.com/article/S1525-5050(20)30757-5/fulltext Sci hub, no access.

My bold and a huge sigh :facepalm: Hope for people with mysterious and debilitating tick bite symptoms The Morrison government has committed $3 million for two studies over five years that will investigate the nature, prevalence and causes of these symptoms to demystify the problem and develop...