Understanding conversion disorder: How contemporary brain imaging is shedding light on an early Freudian concept.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.07.013
Abstract: Conversion disorder, also called Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder is poorly understood by many in the medical profession and is associated with considerable health care costs. Sigmund Freud, in an early, pre-psychoanalytic period paper, suggested that… read more here.
Keywords: early freudian; conversion; conversion disorder; brain ... See more keywords
Functional neuroimaging of recovery from motor conversion disorder: A case report
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DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.03.061
Abstract: ABSTRACT A patient with motor conversion disorder presented with a functional paresis of the left hand. After exclusion of structural brain damage, she was repeatedly examined with whole‐brain functional magnetic resonance imaging, while she performed… read more here.
Keywords: premotor; conversion; medial prefrontal; conversion disorder ... See more keywords
The Visible and Less Visible in the Suffering of a Conversion Disorder in Children and Adolescents. A Qualitative Study of Illness Explanatory Models Presented to Caregivers of Children and Adolescents with Conversion Disorder.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rcp.2017.02.003
Abstract: BACKGROUND Conversion disorder is a challenge for clinicians due to the conceptual gaps as regards its pathogenesis, the way in which it converges with other psychiatric disorders, and the lack of approaches to the experiences… read more here.
Keywords: explanatory models; conversion; conversion disorder; children adolescents ... See more keywords
Patients with Acute Stroke Presenting Like Conversion Disorder
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DOI: 10.1017/s1049023x18000511
Abstract: Abstract Conversion disorder is a form of somatoform disorders which has a high prevalence among women, individuals with lower socioeconomic status, under-educated populations, and in developing countries. However, up to one-half of patients who had… read more here.
Keywords: stroke presenting; patients acute; conversion; acute stroke ... See more keywords
Self‐reference, emotion inhibition and somatosensory disturbance: preliminary investigation of network perturbations in conversion disorder
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DOI: 10.1111/ene.13613
Abstract: Conversion disorder (CD), or functional neurological disorder, is manifested as a neurological disturbance that is not macroscopically visible on clinical structural neuroimaging and is instead ascribed to underlying psychological stress. Known for many years in… read more here.
Keywords: self reference; reference emotion; disorder; conversion disorder ... See more keywords
Thrombolysis of stroke mimics via telestroke
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DOI: 10.1136/svn-2020-000776
Abstract: Background The rate of intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (IVtPA) administered to stroke mimics (SM) occurs in 24%–44% of telestroke series. Methods We reviewed 270 suspected acute ischaemic stroke (AIS) patients who were evaluated by telestroke… read more here.
Keywords: thrombolysis stroke; conversion disorder; via telestroke; stroke mimics ... See more keywords
Characteristics of Conversion Disorder in an Urban Academic Children’s Medical Center
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DOI: 10.1177/0009922819857541
Abstract: Background. Literature on childhood conversion disorder (CD) is sparse and is mostly limited to the outpatient population. Method. Our study retrospectively examines the characteristics of childhood CD in 42 children and adolescents seen by the… read more here.
Keywords: medical center; conversion disorder; urban academic;
Conversion Disorder.
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DOI: 10.1212/con.0000000000000601
Abstract: PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article provides a broad overview of conversion disorder, encompassing diagnostic criteria, epidemiology, etiologic theories, functional neuroimaging findings, outcome data, prognostic indicators, and treatment. RECENT FINDINGS Two important changes have been made… read more here.
Keywords: treatment; conversion disorder; conversion; etiology ... See more keywords
[Stridor and dyspnea caused by a conversion disorder. A case report].
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DOI: 10.4067/s0034-98872017000600808
Abstract: Paradoxical vocal cord motion or vocal cord dysfunction is a descriptive term for an inappropriate adduction of the vocal cords during respiration, which can cause respiratory obstruction and stridor. It is associated with psychiatric conditions… read more here.
Keywords: conversion disorder; stridor; stridor dyspnea;