Conversion disorder is a psychiatric condition in which a person develops physical symptoms that are not under voluntary control and are not explained by a neurological disease or another medical ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alice G. Walton, PhD is a writer who covers health and mental health. In the case of the LeRoy students, factors like drugs, ...

Fifteen teenage girls report a mysterious outbreak of spasms, tics and seizures in upstate New York. But tests find nothing physically wrong. Scores of adults in Northern California report crawling ...

Functional neurologic disorder (FND) is a condition where a person develops symptoms that are not consistent with a neurological disease or other health condition, but they impair the person’s ability ...

The Kanaan et al. study was more about British neurologists' attitudes regarding conversion disorder than the disorder itself. Conversion disorder is common, but has so far not attracted the attention ...

Somatization is the expression of psychological or emotional factors as physical (somatic) symptoms. For example, stress can cause some people to develop headaches, chest pain, back pain, nausea or ...