The purpose of this study was to investigate the validity of the Revised Optimism-Pessimism Scale (PSM-R) as a measure of attributional style, and the incremental utility of optimism and pessimism as ...
Functional neurological disorders (FNDs) have attracted much attention from the neurological medical community over the last decades as new developments in neurosciences have reduced stigma around the...
We aimed to provide a critical commentary on the state of knowledge about the borderland between FNDs and MS....
We based our commentary on a joint point of view between an FND specialist and an MS expert....
A brief review of the previous literature and relevant new studies covering the overlap between FNDs and MS is presented, along with suggestions for future research directions....
There are clear diagnostic criteria for both FNDs and MS and a strict application of these will help better diagnosis and prevent unnecessary treatment escalation in MS or absence of referral to multi...
The idea that a neurologist would do an 'FND clinic' or that functional neurological disorder (FND) could be a subspecialty of neurology would have been outlandish even 20 years ago but has become a r...
Functional Neurologic Disorders (FND) are a common but heterogeneous group of disabling conditions. The Emergency Department (ED) is an important venue for care and referral as it is often the first p...
ED providers (n = 273) practicing in the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Northeast Ohio network were invited to participate through secure web application electronic surveys. Data were collected on practi...
Sixty providers completed the survey (22% response rate; n = 50 ED physicians, 10 advanced care providers) with 95.0% (n = 57) reporting a lack of understanding about FND. The terms Psychogenic Nonepi...
This survey revealed major gaps in knowledge, inaccurate perceptions, and management that differs from the current standard of care among ED providers caring for patients with FND. Educational opportu...
Patients suffering from functional neurological disorder (FND) experience disabling neurological symptoms not caused by an underlying classical neurological disease (such as stroke or multiple scleros...
This study aimed to distinguish 86 FND patients from 86 healthy controls acquired in four different centres using a multivariate machine learning approach based on whole-brain resting-state functional...
FND patients were successfully distinguished from healthy controls in the replication step (accuracy of 74%) as well as in each individual additional centre (accuracies of 73%, 71% and 70%). The poole...
The results demonstrate the applicability of RS FC to correctly distinguish FND patients from healthy controls in different centres and its robustness against inter-scanner variability. In order to ge...
The first author is a left-handed, 51-year-old nephrologist who experienced a neurologic event. She underwent neurosurgery complicated by hemorrhage. Postoperatively, she developed persistent vertigo ...
Uncertainty regarding the legitimacy of functional neurological disorder (FND) remains among some health care professionals. Despite treatment guidelines and consensus recommendations, variability in ...
We included 66 health care professionals who work with people with neurological conditions: n = 37 medical doctors, mainly neurologists (n = 18) and psychiatrists (n = 10), and n = 29 doctoral level p...
Participants self-reported strong explicit FND-legitimate and MS-legitimate attitudes but demonstrated an implicit FND-illegitimate/MS-legitimate bias. Deeper examination provided by the IRAP data ind...
At an implicit level, clinicians are uncertain about the illegitimacy of FND, and such attitudes are associated with lower likelihood of referral to physiotherapy in particular. Improved education on ...
Patients with functional neurological disorders (FND) present with weakness, sensory or movement disorder without corresponding brain pathology. The current classificatory systems suggest an inclusion...
PubMed and SCOPUS databases were searched for studies published from Jan 1950 to Jan 2022 which reported the diagnostic accuracy of clinical signs and electrophysiological investigations in patients w...
Twenty-one studies (727 cases and 932 controls), of which 16 reported clinical signs and, five reported electrophysiological investigations, were included in the review. Two studies were of good quali...
Electrophysiological investigations appear to have a promising role in diagnosing FND, particularly functional movement disorders. The combined use of individual clinical signs and electrophysiologica...
Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES) and Functional Motor Disorders (FMDs) commonly represent the main clinical manifestations of Functional Neurological Disorders (FNDs). Despite their high prev...
A total of 43 FNDs patients (age range 7-17 years old) were retrospectively included in our study, enrolled in two subgroups: 20 with FMDs and 23 with PNES diagnosis. They were inpatients and outpatie...
In PNES patients the most common clinical phenotypes were functional tonic-clonic (52%) and atonic (32%) manifestations while in the FMDs group were gait alterations (60%), functional myoclonus (35%),...
Notably, specific neurocognitive and psychopathological profiles were described in PNES and FMDs, highlighting higher cognitive and psychiatric vulnerabilities in PNES, suggesting as well different st...
FND is common in Indian children and adolescents. Outcome related factors are not well known. With objective to study short-term outcome of FND, prospective, longitudinal, nine months follow-up study ...
