Importance Functional neurological disorders (FND) are common sources of disability in
medicine. Patients have often been misdiagnosed, correctly diagnosed after lengthy delays, and…

Functional neurological disorder (FND), previously regarded as a diagnosis of exclusion, is
now a rule-in diagnosis with available treatments. This represents a major step toward …

Importance Freud argued that in conversion disorder (CD) the affect attached to stressful
memories is “repressed” and “converted” into physical symptoms, although this has never been …

Functional neurological disorder is common in neurological practice. A new approach to the
positive diagnosis of this disorder focuses on recognisable patterns of genuinely …

Objectives To evaluate the neural correlates of implicit processing of negative emotions in
motor conversion disorder (CD) patients. Methods An event related fMRI task was completed …

Background Stressful life events and maltreatment have traditionally been considered
crucial in the development of conversion (functional neurological) disorder, but the evidence …

Experts in the field of conversion disorder have suggested for the upcoming DSM-V edition
to put less weight on the associated psychological factors and to emphasise the role of …

Functional neurological (conversion) disorder (FND) was of great interest to early clinical
neuroscience leaders. During the 20th century, neurology and psychiatry grew apart - leaving …

Functional neurological (conversion) disorder (FND) is a prevalent and disabling condition
at the intersection of neurology and psychiatry. Advances have been made in elucidating an …

BackgroundPsychological models of conversion disorder (CD) traditionally assume that
psychosocial stressors are identifiable around symptom onset. In the face of limited supportive …