Functional neurologic disorder (FND) is a condition where a person develops symptoms that are not consistent with a neurological disease or other health condition, but they impair the person’s ability ...

The brain is a complex organ that produces all kinds of physical and emotional effects on your body. Sometimes, emotional trauma or psychological stress can trigger physical symptoms. When this ...

Conversion disorder is a psychiatric condition in which a person develops physical symptoms that are not under voluntary control and are not explained by a neurological disease or another medical ...

Fifteen teenage girls report a mysterious outbreak of spasms, tics and seizures in upstate New York. But tests find nothing physically wrong. Scores of adults in Northern California report crawling ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alice G. Walton, PhD is a writer who covers health and mental health. In the case of the LeRoy students, factors like drugs, ...

More than a dozen girls in this tiny New York town have started displaying Tourette's-like symptoms, but nobody seems to know why. In the tiny town of LeRoy, New York (population 7,641), more than a ...

Conversion disorder is a mental illness when neurological symptom exists without an explanation. Imagine you're just finishing up your lunch break when you suddenly can't move your legs. Up until this ...

Study design: We present our cumulative experience with patients sustaining the most dramatic type of Conversion Disorder (CD) – Conversion Motor Paralysis. Setting: Rehabilitation departments, Reuth ...

Editor’s Note: Dr. Charles Raison, CNNhealth’s mental health expert, is an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He says environmental poisons, infection aren't ...