ALLMedicine™ Conversion Disorder Center

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.