ALLMedicine™ Conversion Disorder Center
Research & Reviews 181 results
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03398070
Apr 5th, 2022 - Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) (Conversion Disorder) is a poorly understood and prevalent somatoform disorder, making up 16% of outpatient neurology referrals. Patients with motor FND (mFND) are difficult to treat, result in major morbidit...
https://doi.org/10.1097/IOP.0000000000002157
Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; Ho TC, Couch SM et. al.
Mar 25th, 2022 - Psychogenic ptosis is a rare ophthalmic manifestation of conversion disorder. The aim of this study was to describe the clinical parameters, etiology, psychological, and clinical aspects of psychogenic ptosis. A retrospective case series was condu...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05086380
Feb 24th, 2022 - A conversion disorder is a dysfunction of the nervous system in which no structural damage can be demonstrated. However, it must be distinguished from other psychiatric disorders such as psychosis or depression. There are a variety of signs of the...
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-022-09768-3 10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596 10.1057/9780230228399 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112725 10.1016/j.neucli.2013.10.126 10.1080/01459740.1981.9986998 10.1007/s11013-014-9368-9 10.1080/00141844.2011.586465 10.1111/j.1469-8676.2001.tb00152.x 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.10.044 10.1007/s11013-018-9612-9 10.36019/9781978804081 10.1215/9780822391470 10.7208/chicago/9780226381824.001.0001 10.1007/BF00054782 10.1007/s11013-010-9179-6 10.1007/s11013-014-9369-8 10.1525/ae.1988.15.1.02a00030 10.5325/jafrireli.10.1.0047 10.2307/j.ctt5hj296 10.1111/maq.12467 10.1111/etho.12245 10.1136/bmj.39513.441030.AD 10.1177/1363461518757800
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry; Canna M
Feb 16th, 2022 - The globalization of biomedicine poses the problem of finding cross-culturally valid criteria for mental health. Undue pathologization is a major risk for global health, especially when diagnoses rely exclusively on Western nosology. This article ...
https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2021-328035
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry; Zhang L, Beghi E et. al.
Jan 29th, 2022 - To compare mortality, comorbidities and causes of death in people with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), epilepsy and the general population. Using linkage of multiple Swedish national registers, we identified individuals with incident di...
Clinicaltrials.gov 3 results
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03398070
Apr 5th, 2022 - Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) (Conversion Disorder) is a poorly understood and prevalent somatoform disorder, making up 16% of outpatient neurology referrals. Patients with motor FND (mFND) are difficult to treat, result in major morbidit...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05086380
Feb 24th, 2022 - A conversion disorder is a dysfunction of the nervous system in which no structural damage can be demonstrated. However, it must be distinguished from other psychiatric disorders such as psychosis or depression. There are a variety of signs of the...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04097184
Jan 4th, 2022 - Conversion disorder, also called "functional neurological disorder" (DSM-5), refers to impaired voluntary motor or sensory functions that are not compatible with a well-known neurological condition. This disorder affects up to 30% of hospitalized ...
News 30 results
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/949294
Apr 14th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. The development of unusual movements after COVID-19 vaccination may be a result of functional neurological disorder rather than being a direct adv...
https://reference.medscape.com/viewarticle/921730_5
Nov 27th, 2019 - The treatment of conversion disorder requires a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach. An initial neurologic consultation serves to corroborate this possible diagnosis by eliminating organic causes of the symptoms present. Psychiatric consultat...
https://www.mdedge.com/psychiatry/article/208545/anxiety-disorders/judicious-eeg-use-identifies-pseudosyncope-during-tilt?channel=184
M. Alexander Otto
Sep 22nd, 2019 - NEW ORLEANS – Limiting EEG during tilt-table testing to suspected pseudosyncope cases – instead of the common approaches, no EEG or EEG in everyone – greatly increases the chance of detecting the condition, according to an investigation from Vande.
https://www.mdedge.com/psychiatry/article/205535/neurology/seizure-episodes-it-really-epilepsy/page/0/2?channel=47
Aug 1st, 2019 - Although NES is a common type of conversion disorder, it is often difficult to diagnose, manage, and treat. Patients often receive antiepileptic medications but continue to have worsening events that are refractory to treatment.
https://www.mdedge.com/neurology/msresourcecenter/article/196000/multiple-sclerosis/evaluations-possible-ms-often-turn-one?channel=53
Jake Remaly
Mar 9th, 2019 - DALLAS – Of 95 patients referred to two multiple sclerosis (MS) centers for a possible diagnosis of MS, 74% did not have MS, according to a study presented at ACTRIMS Forum 2019. A majority had clinical syndromes or imaging findings that are atypi.