Conversion disorder is a psychiatric condition in which a person develops physical symptoms that are not under voluntary control and are not explained by a neurological disease or another medical ...

A 42-year-old man presented to a neurology clinic after having consulted multiple neurologists over many years. His complaint was of left leg weakness, buckling at the knee, and the sensation that his ...

A new study led by a Rhode Island Hospital researcher has found that a cognitive behavior therapy-informed psychotherapy significantly reduces the seizures in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic ...

Functional neurological disorder (FND) is a condition in which a person experiences temporary physical symptoms, such as blindness or paralysis, that do not have a physical cause. While the exact ...

Substance use and the presence of subthreshold affective symptoms may predict future bipolar disorder in young people with precursor conditions such as depression, research suggests. The 52 patients ...

Patients with psychogenic movement disorders are usually diagnosed by neurologists and referred to psychiatrists for treatment. A survey of members of the Movement Disorder Society highlights ...

Conversion disorder is a psychiatric condition in which a person has neurological symptoms like paralysis or blindness with no physiological cause. In the past, such events were often described as ...

Conversion disorder is a neurosis marked by the appearance of physical symptoms such as partial loss of muscle function without physical cause but in the presence of psychological conflict. Symptoms ...