Functional neurological disorder (FND), previously regarded as a diagnosis of exclusion, is
now a rule-in diagnosis with available treatments. This represents a major step toward …

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How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel,
create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all …

In the past decades, reductionism has dominated both research directions and funding
policies in clinical psychology and psychiatry. The intense search for the biological basis of …

Background Functional somatic symptoms and disorders are common and complex
phenomena involving both bodily and brain processes. They pose major challenges across …

This article provides a neurobiological account of symptoms that have been called
'hysterical','psychogenic'or 'medically unexplained', which we will call functional motor and …

Outlines how the social dimensions of medical diagnosis can deepen our understanding of
health. Diagnosis is central to medicine. It creates order, explains illness, identifies …

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 …

This paper describes the rationale for the new diagnosis of somatic symptom disorder (SSD)
within DSM5. SSD represents a consolidation of a number of previously listed diagnoses. It …

OBJECTIVE: DSM-III introduced somatoform disorders as a speculative diagnostic category
for somatic symptoms “not explained by a general medical condition.” Although retained and …