The growing acceptance of consciousness as a legitimate field of enquiry and the
availability of functional imaging has rekindled research interest in the use of hypnosis and …

Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) and its variant, Miller Fisher syndrome (MFS) have several
subtypes, together forming a continuous spectrum of discrete and overlap** syndromes …

Objectives To determine the disability, distress and employment status of new neurology
outpatients with physical symptoms unexplained by organic disease and to compare them …

Conversion disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-
TR) describes neurological symptoms, including weakness, numbness and events …

The care of patients with functional neurological disorders overlaps both the neurology and
psychiatry specialties. It is often the case that neither provider thinks that he or she should be …

Motor imagery is a widely used paradigm for the study of cognitive aspects of action control,
both in the healthy and the pathological brain. In this paper we review how motor imagery …

Objective Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) are epilepsy-like episodes which
have an emotional rather than organic origin. Although PNES have often been related to the …

This open access book provides an enriched understanding of historical, collective, cultural,
and identity-related trauma, emphasising the social and political location of human subjects …

Psychogenic movement disorders (PMDs) are common, but their physiology is largely
unknown. In most situations, the movement is involuntary, but in a minority, when the …

Background: Psychogenic movement disorder (PMD) is a subtype of conversion disorder.
We describe the outcomes of a series of PMD patients following antidepressant treatment …