Functional Neurological Disorder May Still Carry Stigma

Over time, FND has shifted from a "rule-out" diagnosis to one based on positive clinical signs. Despite this, stigma about FND is pervasive in ...

MedPage Today: Functional neurological disorder may still carry ...

"The stigma attached to FND also comes from an era when FND was confused with malingering -- that is, the idea that patients were 'faking' their ...

How stigma unfolds for patients with Functional Neurological Disorder

Stigma did not unfold as a linear process, rather it came from multiple interacting sources. Interventions to target stigma could take the form of improved ...

Disentangling Stigma from Functional Neurological Disorders

Patients with FND are seen as a risk, requiring an inordinate amount of time (at least more than physicians may be typically allotted for ...

Stigma and functional neurological disorder: a research ... - PubMed

Stigma against patients with functional neurological disorder (FND) presents obstacles to diagnosis, treatment, and research.

Fighting the FND stigma: the consultant neurologist - The BMJ

... stigma around functional neurological disorder. When patients enter ... may have told them—“all in their mind.” Stone, a consultant ...

A meta-ethnographic synthesis of the experiences of stigma ...

Stigma is a key part of the illness experience of FND and needs to be addressed. Implications for Rehabilitation. Functional neurological disorders can cause a ...

Stigma and functional neurological disorder: a research agenda ...

The lack of biomarkers and the potential for symptoms to be misunderstood, invalidated, or dismissed can leave patients, families, and ...

FND Hope Research

A staggering 81.64% of patients felt they had been treated poorly due to stigma related to their FND diagnosis.

Functional neurological disorder is a feminist issue

Although viewed sceptically by some, FND is a diagnosis that can be made accurately, based on positive clinical signs, with clinical features that have remained ...

Dealing with the unknown. Functional neurological disorder (FND ...

Patients with FNDs are often misdiagnosed and suffer from stigma, dysfunctional medical encounters and scarcity of adequate treatments. In this paper we argue ...

Functional neurological disorder: the silent illness - The SANE Blog

FND can have the same debilitating symptoms as seen multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and epilepsy, yet many health professionals lack ...

Psychiatrists' attitudes towards functional neurological disorders

Our main findings suggest that Italian psychiatrists have a psychogenetic conceptualization of FND. “Conversion disorders”, in fact, is the term ...

Stop the Stigma | FND Recovery

Functional Neurological Disorder is an illness, just like any illness. · FND is not your fault. No one chooses to have this disorder. · FND says ...

What Is FND - FND Hope International

Functional Neurological Disorders are considered to be multifactorial, which means many different risk factors can contribute to the development of the disorder ...

Stigma and FND: A Research Agenda Targeting the Clinical ...

Stigma against patients with functional neurological disorder (FND) presents obstacles to diagnosis, treatment, and research. The lack of biomarkers and the ...

Functional Neurological Disorder: Historical Trends and Urgent ...

Common functional neurological disorder (FND) presentations and specialists involved in their care. Multiple symptoms grouped together depict ...

Is it all in your head? Understanding Functional Neurological Disorder.

As it is a diagnosis of exclusion, it can only be made after other possible conditions have been ruled out, often meaning the person remains ...

What is functional neurological disorder? Explaining the most ...

A staggering 81.64% of patients felt they had been treated poorly due to stigma related to their FND diagnosis. While the individual labels have ...

What are the experiences of people with motor and sensory ...

Functional neurological disorders are common, highly stigmatised and associated with significant disability. This review aimed to synthesise qualitative ...