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Who knows why people might fake seizures, perhaps for attention seeking, who knows. I would think that if the researchers really do want to investigate the pathophysiology of functional seizures, they could use tools like functional imaging - functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)...

I think there needs to be a complete separation of true Conversion Disorder, psychogenic along the lines of a psychological trauma like sexual abuse as a child or being in a crappy war resulting in PTSD, from a functional neurological symptom disorder that may have no identifiable psychological...

Moved from this thread: Baricitinib reverses HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders in a SCID mouse model and reservoir seeding in vitro, 2019, Govegnano et al. Neuroinflammation is an interesting topic when it comes to neurocognitive disorders for sure. "Neuroinflammation...

One wonders about misdiagnosis in all subtypes of FSS which is still occurring in Conversion Disorder: "Misdiagnosis of an underlying medical condition as Conversion Disorder/Functional Neurological Disorder (CD/FND) still occurs." 2020. C.M.van der Feltz-Cornelis "Our findings show that...

"Each patient" as you say alktipping. Doesn't that go agains't modern population-based evidence based medicine with the RCT as the gold standard for best evidence? I mean "each patient" implies that "each patient" is important onto themselves and has individual unique characteristics and...

Abstract: "The functional-organic distinction aims to distinguish symptoms, signs, and syndromes that can be explained by diagnosable biological changes, from those that cannot. The distinction is central to clinical practice and is a key organising principle in diagnostic systems. Following a...

If anyone wants, below is a Pubmed (includes Medline) search for ME/CFS for the past 12 months, rolling, on ME/CFS, English language. The search is a compromise of sensitivity and specificity on the topic meaning it wont' capture everything in Pubmed on the topic, the words must be in the title...

And has been looked at in cancer as well: Roles of Biopsychosocial Factors in the Development of Breast Cancer https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5648278/

Yes, I sometimes wonder if the word "cure" is mistaken for "dormant" by some authors.

Certainly some bias I would think. For me personally though as someone who had some form of ADHD as a youngster, I was taken out of the regular classroom in grade 4 and put into a special ed class for part of the year which ended up being excellent for me in the long run, I did find this...

I have found this article in press of great benefit to my thinking as someone "diagnosed" with CD/FND by neurologists and one psychiatrist (and with parkinsonism of undetermined nature by a research geriatrician where I was assessed for a study but an exclusion criteria was parkinsonism). The...