Functional Neurological Disorder

Disability, distress and delayed access to care in functional neurological disorder: cross-sectional study from an Australian tertiary clinic.

Functional neurological disorder (FND) is a common condition, but there remain substantial gaps in our understanding of its effects, particularly on severity of disability and health status. To characterise disability, quality of life and psychological and somatic symptom comorbidity in individuals…

Functional neurological symptoms occur commonly in healthy adults: implications for the pathophysiology of FND.

Pain in Functional Motor Disorders: Clinical Correlates From the Italian Registry.

Pain is a frequent and disabling symptom in patients with Functional Motor Disorders (FMD), yet its clinical correlates and impact have not been characterized in large, representative cohorts. The aims of this study were to identify clinical predictors and correlates of pain intensity and interferen…

Personality Disorders in Functional and Idiopathic Dystonia.

Background: Distinguishing functional dystonia (FD) from idiopathic dystonia (ID) remains a major clinical challenge because both conditions are diagnosed primarily on clinical grounds and may be accompanied by non-motor psychiatric symptoms. Although personality abnormalities have been described in…

Diagnostic Overshadowing in Functional Neurological Disorder Leading to a Diagnosis of Acute Motor and Sensory Axonal Neuropathy: A Case Report.

Background: Features intersecting neurological and psychiatric disorders impose differential diagnostic challenges, especially in younger, healthy patients. Cognitive biases, such as diagnostic overshadowing, can lead to errors for patients with neurologic deficits in the presence of psychiatric com…

What helps? Patient-reported strategies for managing functional/dissociative seizures: a cross-sectional survey.

The value of incorporating lived experience into research is increasingly recognised, however, traditional functional/dissociative seizure (FDS) treatment studies assess treatment efficacy prior to ascertaining real-world effectiveness. This study aimed to gather firsthand accounts from individuals…

Brain imaging research is thriving in functional neurological disorder.

Development and Validation of a Comprehensive Acute Encephalitis Syndrome Severity Score in Children with Acute Encephalitis Syndrome.

No comprehensive scoring system is currently available to predict functional neurological outcomes in children with acute encephalitis syndrome (AES). We therefore developed and validated a score specifically tailored for these children. We developed the comprehensive acute encephalitis syndrome sev…