Of all conditions treated in our field, perhaps none more clearly demonstrates the need for a dynamically-informed psychiatry than conversion disorder. The patient who presents with neurological ...

Conversion disorder is a neurosis marked by the appearance of physical symptoms such as partial loss of muscle function without physical cause but in the presence of psychological conflict. Symptoms ...

schizo cropped This prospective cohort study included a population-based sample of 2,539 individuals born in Denmark with an incident diagnosis of schizotypal disorder and without a previous diagnosis ...

A 42-year-old man presented to a neurology clinic after having consulted multiple neurologists over many years. His complaint was of left leg weakness, buckling at the knee, and the sensation that his ...

Background: Conversion disorder (CD) is a psychiatric disorder, yet the diagnosis cannot be established without the expertise of a neurologist, as distinguishing a functional from an organic symptom ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . PHILADELPHIA — Rochelle Caplan, MD, of the University of California, Los Angeles, discusses conversion disorder ...

Imagine you're just finishing up your lunch break when you suddenly can't move your legs. Up until this point, you were perfectly healthy with no signs of any kind of physical illness. It would be ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A new study led by a Rhode Island Hospital researcher has found that a cognitive behavior therapy-informed psychotherapy significantly reduces the seizures in patients with ...

A new study finds that one-third of patients admitted to the epilepsy unit are not actually suffering from epileptic seizures: they’re suffering from stress. As if we weren’t already stressed out ...

Conversion disorder (CD) is a psychiatric disease but the diagnosis cannot be established without the help of a trained neurologist, as the main criterion formulates that the neurological symptom ...