Conversion Disorder
<p>Psychiatrists’ Understanding and Management of Conversion Disorder: A Bi-National Survey and Comparison with Neurologists</p>
... “conversion disorder”, respondents will have depended on their own understanding of the condition, and the term “conversion” may have impelled respondents towards tra- ditional interpretations; ...
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Traumatic experiences and dissociation in patients with conversion disorder
... with conversion disorder at three major public hospitals of the ...for conversion disorder, the dissociative experiences scale and traumatic experiences checklist were used to measure study ...
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Uncovering the etiology of conversion disorder: insights from functional neuroimaging
... Abstract: Conversion disorder (CD) is a syndrome of neurological symptoms arising without organic cause, arguably in response to emotional stress, but the exact neural substrates of these symptoms and the ...
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Hypnotic susceptibility in patients with conversion disorder.
... of conversion symptomatology, whereas the SDQ–20 is ...with conversion disorder, the role of hypnotic susceptibility is more pronounced for pseudoneurological symptoms than for somatization in ...
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Cognitive rehabilitation treatment for mental slowness in conversion disorder : A case report
... with conversion disorder sufer from signiicant distress and pseudoneurological symptoms on motor or sensory function that is incompatible with neurological ...in conversion disorder, and they ...
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When symptoms don’t fit: a case series of conversion disorder in the pediatric otolaryngology practice
... Patient 2 was an 11-year-old girl who presented to hospital with a history of head trauma while somersault- ing 3 weeks prior to her presentation. She described progressive headaches, disequilibrium, choreiform move- ...
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Problems with diagnosing Conversion Disorder in response to variable and unusual symptoms
... Abstract: Conversion Disorder (CD) is a diagnosis offered to explain signs and symptoms that do not correspond to recognized medical conditions. Pediatric patients with variable, vague, and multisystem ...
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Childhood abuse in patients with conversion disorder.
... of conversion disorder, which pro- posed that, in reaction to childhood trauma, a form of au- tohypnosis would result in somatoform dissociative symp- ...
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A foreign speech accent in a case of conversion disorder
... In 1995, the patient’s personality was assessed by means of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inven- tory (MMPI) [48] and the results matched the profile of a conversion disorder. The MMPI profile ...
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Trauma and dissociation in conversion disorder and chronic pelvic pain
... In the light of the present results, interpreting childhood sexual and physical abuse as a necessary or sufficient condition for the development of dissociative symptoms in chronic pelvic pain and conversion ...
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Caesarean Delivery Complicated by Unintentional Subdural Block and Conversion Disorder
... on repeated at- tempts at reaspiration. All this time the patient was hemo- dynamically stable and had no signs of respiratory depres- sion. The intraoperative course was unremarkable, with fetal delivery six minutes ...
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Neural correlates of conversion disorder: overview and meta analysis of neuroimaging studies on motor conversion disorder
... The present study summarizes the results of functional brain-imaging (MRI, SPECT, and PET) studies on MCD via a meta-analytic approach. We found significant dif- ferential activation in several areas previously discussed ...
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Comorbid bipolar disorder among patients with conversion disorder
... with conversion disorder according to DSM-IV were included in the ...physical disorder that may interfere with the psychiatric symptoms of the patient, and the presence of psychiatric disorders due ...
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Two Cases of Conversion Disorder
... Patients with conversion disorder may unconsciously model their symptoms on those of someone important to them e.g., a parent or a person who has recently died may serve as a model for conversion ...
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Conversion disorder: towards a neurobiological understanding
... In 1995 the first reported functional imaging study was conducted on a female nurse who had developed left-sided hysterical paralysis and paresthesia (Tiihonen et al 1995). Single-photon emission computed tomography ...
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P-wave and QT dispersion in patients with conversion disorder
... psychotic disorder diagno- sis according to DSM-IV-TR or dementia and other cognitive disorders; neurological disorders leading to unique personal- ity traits such as epilepsy, migraine, multiple sclerosis, and ...
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La belle indifférence revisited: a case report on progressive supranuclear palsy misdiagnosed as conversion disorder
... Based on this case, some recommendations can be made: neurologists who intend to refute or establish a diagnosis of CD should not only look for neurological disorders but also look actively for neurological ...
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Evaluation of oxidant, antioxidant, and S100B levels in patients with conversion disorder
... anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder, childhood ADHD and hyperactivity disorder, and OCD than in the general ...
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Diagnosis and Management of Psychogenic Stridor Caused by a Conversion Disorder
... Psychogenic stridor, a recently reported cause of acute upper-airway obstruction, is also known as paradoxical vocal cord motion.’3 Although re-.. ported to occur predominantly among you[r] ...
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Psychiatric Evaluation during Epilepsy Monitoring Unit Admission Identifies Undiagnosed Psychiatric Co Morbidities in Epilepsy Patients
... Stress Disorder (PTSD) with history of severe ...spectrum disorder diag- nosed at young age, all related to early-onset ...version disorder evidenced by negative ...or conversion ...
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