Clinicians and Cognitive Bias: A Case of Frontotemporal Dementia Misdiagnosed as Conversion Disorder

Am J Psychiatry. 2019 Sep 1;176(9):690-693. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18050551.

Authors

Benjamin R Braus¹, Teresa A Rummans¹, Maria I Lapid¹, Robert J Morgan¹, Shirlene M Sampson¹, Elliot M Handler¹, Joel E Dimsdale¹

Affiliation

¹ The Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. (Braus, Rummans, Lapid, Morgan, Sampson, Handler); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego (Dimsdale).

PMID: 31474126
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18050551

No abstract available

Keywords: Cognitive Heuristics; Conversion Disorder.

Publication types

Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Bias*
Cognition
Conversion Disorder / diagnosis*
Conversion Disorder / psychology
Diagnostic Errors / psychology*
Female
Frontotemporal Dementia / diagnosis*
Frontotemporal Dementia / psychology
Humans
Middle Aged
Neuropsychological Tests