Conversion disorder is a psychiatric condition in which a person has neurological symptoms like paralysis or blindness with no physiological cause. In the past, such events were often described as ...

Conversion disorder is a condition in which you have physical symptoms but no injury or illness to explain them. For instance, imagine that you were in a car wreck. You were unharmed, but the next ...

Conversion disorder can have many different presentations and symptoms. Motor symptoms include weakness or paralysis, abnormal movements such as tremors, and difficulty walking.

Conversion disorder was described more than a century ago as a hysterical disorder in which psychological or emotional stress translated into physical symptoms ranging from fatigue to paralysis.

Treatment of conversion disorder is basically relieving the symptoms. Sometimes, the symptoms go away on their own after stress has been reduced. If a patient experiences anxiety (an alteration of ...

Conversion disorder is a neurosis marked by the appearance of physical symptoms such as partial loss of muscle function without physical cause but in the presence of psychological conflict ...

The essence of a conversion disorder is the development of a neurological symptom – such as the tics seen in the young people of Le Roy – for which no neural abnormality can be found.

Conversion disorder is uncommon in the general population. The symptoms in conversion disorder may include episodes that look like seizures (but which are proven not to be, ...

In any event, like conversion disorder before it, FND as currently framed and as applied to those with long Covid is essentially impossible to prove or disprove.

At one extreme, such symptoms constitute conversion disorder. What do such symptoms means, and how are they best approached? What does the title mean and what conditions fall in its domain?