Friday, August 28, 2026

Functional neurological disorder: new subtypes and shared mechanisms

Functional neurological disorder is common in neurological practice. A new approach to the positive diagnosis of this disorder focuses on recognisable patterns of genuinely experienced symptoms and signs that show variability within the same task and between different tasks over time. Psychological stressors are common risk factors for functional neurological disorder, but are often absent. Four entities—functional seizures, functional movement disorders, persistent perceptual postural dizziness, and functional cognitive disorder—show similarities in aetiology and pathophysiology and are......

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422(21)00422-1/abstract



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