Conversion Disorder
Conversion disorder is a mental condition in which a person has blindness, paralysis, or other nervous system (neurologic) symptoms that cannot be explained by medical evaluation.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W049
Diagnosis: Conversion Disorder
US Patients: 0.11-0.5%
World Patients:
Sex Ratio: 1M;4W
Age Onset: Ages-10-35
Brain Area: large epinephrine release
Symptoms: psychologically triggered neurological symptoms, numbness, blindness, paralysis or fits,etc.
Progression: Trauma suddenly converted by the brain into physical limitations.
Causes: serious difficulties when no physical basis can be found; usually in motor or sensory systems
Medications:
Therapies: hypnosis, psychotherapy, physical therapy, stress management, transcranial magnetic stimulation; depression may occur.
Youtube Video: A patient’s journey of recovery from
Functional Neurological Disorder at Mass General Hospital
Amazon or Library Book: Out Of My Mind (Conversion Disorder)
Click the book to link or order from Amazon.
Support Group: facebook.com/groups/859712170775277 (Conversion Disorder Group)
Contact your local Social Security office for possible Disability Benefits through their Disability Determination Services,
Section 12.07.
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
reports chosen for each diagnosis
Clicking each title opens the
PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- Hysterical motility disorders during the First World War: cases from the orthopaedic department of the Red Cross Hospital in Zagrebby Stella Fatović-Ferenčić on December 2, 2024
CONCLUSION: We have demonstrated that a significant number of patients with motility disorders of psychogenic origin were treated at the orthopaedic department of the Red Cross Hospital in Zagreb. The detailed descriptions left by our predecessors can be used to trace the epidemiology and evolution of these disorders over time, including complex conditions like conversion disorder.
- Mechanism of Bacillus cooperating with silicon to re-balance chlorophyll metabolism and restore carbon metabolism of Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch. Seedlings exposed to salt-drought stressby Xueying Peng on December 1, 2024
Salt-drought is a major environmental event affecting crop productivity and quality by causing chlorophyll (Chl) and carbon balance disorder. There has been growing interest in the application of endophyte and silicon (Si), as inoculants for saline and drought land restoration. This study investigates the impact of Bacillus (Bs), Si, and Bs + Si on the disorder of Chl metabolism and carbon balance of G. uralensis seedlings under salt-drought stress (SD). Results showed that both Bs and Si...
- TEVAR in Connective Tissue Disease Patients is Not a Definitive Optionby Bryan Cass on December 1, 2024
CONCLUSION: This study suggests that TEVAR for CTD patients can be performed safely, however, patients are at high risk for aortic-related morbidities and reintervention. Reinterventions and open conversion are common and more likely to occur within one year. TEVAR should remain limited in this population until more durable outcomes are possible.
- Mood, Activity, and Instability in Bipolar Disorder and Unipolar Disorder-An Exploratory Post Hoc Study Using Digital Databy Maria Faurholt-Jepsen on December 1, 2024
CONCLUSION: Patients with BD presented with lower level of activity as compared with patients with UD. There were no differences in mood and activity instability between these groups. Future studies including larger sample sizes should investigate differences between BD and UD.