Functional neurological disorders: The neurological assessment as treatment [PDF]
The neurologist's role in patients with functional disorders has traditionally been limited to making the diagnosis, excluding a ‘disease’ and pronouncing the symptoms to be ‘non-organic’ or ‘psychogenic’. In this article, I argue that there are multiple opportunities during routine assessment of a patient with a functional disorder for the neurologist
Jon Stone
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Current Opinions and Practices in Functional Neurological Disorders: A Survey of Indian Neurologists [PDF]
Background and Objectives: Functional neurological disorders (FNDs) are common in clinical practice and a significant cause of disability. In India, the presentation of FNDs is influenced by socio-cultural factors, yet there is limited research on how ...
Jitendra Upadhyay +2 more
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Positive Clinical Signs of Functional Neurological Disorders Are Found in Patients With Functional Cognitive Disorders [PDF]
Introduction The proposition of diagnostic criteria of functional cognitive impairment (FCD) is relatively recent, includes different subtypes of heterogenous aetiologies, and likely involves underlying mechanisms similar to those found in functional ...
Olga Goyena +8 more
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Early detection of cerebrovascular pathology and protective antiviral immunity by MRI
Central nervous system (CNS) infections are a major cause of human morbidity and mortality worldwide. Even patients that survive, CNS infections can have lasting neurological dysfunction resulting from immune and pathogen induced pathology.
Li Liu +10 more
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Cerebrovascular activity is a major factor in the cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) provides physical protection to the central nervous system as well as an essential homeostatic environment for the normal functioning of neurons.
Yicun Wang +6 more
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Autonomic arousals contribute to brain fluid pulsations during sleep
During sleep, slow waves of neuro-electrical activity engulf the human brain and aid in the consolidation of memories. Recent research suggests that these slow waves may also promote brain health by facilitating the removal of metabolic waste, possibly ...
Dante Picchioni +6 more
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In vivo MRI is sensitive to remyelination in a nonhuman primate model of multiple sclerosis
Remyelination is crucial to recover from inflammatory demyelination in multiple sclerosis (MS). Investigating remyelination in vivo using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is difficult in MS, where collecting serial short-interval scans is challenging ...
Maxime Donadieu +14 more
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Functional neurological disorder in the emergency department [PDF]
AbstractWe provide a narrative review of functional neurological disorder (FND, or conversion disorder) for the emergency department (ED). Diagnosis of FND has shifted from a “rule‐out” disorder to one now based on the recognition of positive clinical signs, allowing the ED physician to make a suspected or likely diagnosis of FND.
Sara A. Finkelstein +3 more
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Management of functional neurological disorder [PDF]
AbstractFunctional neurological disorder (FND) is a common cause of persistent and disabling neurological symptoms. These symptoms are varied and include abnormal control of movement, episodes of altered awareness resembling epileptic seizures and abnormal sensation and are often comorbid with chronic pain, fatigue and cognitive symptoms.
Gilmour, Gabriela S. +7 more
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Suggestibility in functional neurological disorders [PDF]
From the simple message of ‘I will please’ (Latin placēbō ) encapsulated in a sugar pill, to the famous theatrics of Jean-Martin Charcot’s hypnotic seizure inductions and treatments (figure 1), implicit and explicit narratives of healing and illness have been noted to exert a particularly strong influence on functional neurological disorder (FND ...
Stoyan Popkirov, Timothy R Nicholson
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