Patient Perspective: Closing the Gap: Personal and Clinical Reflections on Functional Neurologic Disorder

Neurology. 2026 Mar 10;106(5):e214699. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000214699. Epub 2026 Feb 9.

Abstract

Functional neurological disorder (FND) is a neuropsychiatric disorder that manifests with involuntary neurologic symptoms because of a brain network dysfunction, arising from variable biopsychosocial etiologies. Symptoms have positive clinical features of inconsistency, like tremor entrainment or distractibility, and incongruence with typical or well-understood neurophysiology/neuroanatomy. FND is not a diagnosis of exclusion and diagnostic criteria are available for many FND phenotypes.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Conversion Disorder* / diagnosis
  • Conversion Disorder* / physiopathology
  • Conversion Disorder* / psychology
  • Humans
  • Nervous System Diseases* / diagnosis
  • Nervous System Diseases* / physiopathology
  • Nervous System Diseases* / psychology