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

Functional neurological symptom disorder (FNSD) is characterized by neurological
symptoms that are unexplained by other traditional neurological or medical conditions. Both …

Between 10 and 30% of patients seen by neurologists have symptoms for which there is no
current pathophysiological explanation. The objective of this review is to answer questions …

The development and selection of optimal outcome measures is increasingly recognized as
a key component of evidence-based medicine, particularly the need for the development of …

The neurologist's role in patients with functional disorders has traditionally been limited to
making the diagnosis, excluding a 'disease'and pronouncing the symptoms to be 'non …

Functional neurological symptoms (FNS) are commonly encountered but have engendered
remarkably little academic interest.'UK-Functional Neurological Symptoms (UK-FNS)'was an …

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 …

Functional (psychogenic) movement disorders (FMD) are part of the wide spectrum of
functional neurological disorders, which together account for over 16% of patients referred to …

Patients with functional neurological disorders (FND)/conversion disorder commonly present
to outpatient clinics. FND is now a 'rule in'diagnosis based on neurological examination …

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