Common sense suggests that emotions are physical types that have little to do with the
words we use to label them. Yet recent psychological constructionist accounts reveal that …

The paper reviews and summarizes the history and the development of somatosensory
amplification, a construct that plays a substantial role in symptom reports. Although the …

Psychogenic pseudosyncope (PPS) is the appearance of transient loss of consciousness
(TLOC) in the absence of true loss of consciousness. Psychiatrically, most cases are …

Background The mechanisms leading to the development of functional motor symptoms
(FMS) are of pathophysiological and clinical relevance, yet are poorly understood. Aim The …

Among the various emotion-related constructs that have been associated with health and
disease, alexithymia has the longest history. Formulated by Nemiah, Freyberger, and …

Objective Reduced resilience, a construct associated with maladaptive stress coping and a
predisposing vulnerability for Functional Neurological Disorders (FND), has been under …

Background History of traumatic experience is common in dissociative disorder (DD), and
similarity of symptoms and characteristics between DD and posttraumatic stress disorder …

abstract Alexithymia has been considered to have a negative influence on the course of
symptoms in various psychiatric disorders. Only a few studies of depressed patients have …

Introduction In a cohort of adults with Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), we aim to: 1)
Report the prevalence of autistic traits and alexithymia. 2) Report psychiatric comorbidity …

Objectives The objective of this study was to compare the effect on functional tremor of active
versus sham repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and investigate whether the …