Functional neurological disorders: The neurological assessment as treatment
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Functional neurological disorders: the neurological assessment as treatment.
The neurologist's role in patients with functional disorders has traditionally been limited to making the diagnosis, excluding a 'disease' and pronouncing the symptoms to be 'non-organic' or 'psychogenic'. In this article, I argue that there are multiple opportunities during routine assessment of a patient with a functional disorder for the neurologist to take the lead with treatment. These opp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurophysiologie Clinique/Clinical Neurophysiology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0987-7053
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucli.2014.01.002