1. Neurocognitive functioning in patients with conversion disorder/functional neurological disorder
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Christina M. van der Feltz-Cornelis, Madelon M.E. Riem, Willem J Kop, Iris Koppenol, Lars de Vroege, Tranzo, Scientific center for care and wellbeing, Medical and Clinical Psychology, Geestelijke Gezondheidszorg, Clinical Child and Family Studies, and LEARN! - Child rearing
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SOMATOFORM DISORDERS ,Adult ,Male ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Generalized anxiety disorder ,SYMPTOMS ,CONTROLLED CLINICAL-TRIAL ,Cognitive Neuroscience ,PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURES ,INHIBITION ,neuropsychology ,GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER ,Neurological disorder ,Neuropsychological Tests ,somatic symptom and related disorders ,THERAPY ,050105 experimental psychology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Behavioral Neuroscience ,Executive Function ,0302 clinical medicine ,Cognition ,DEFICITS ,functional neurological disorder ,medicine ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Conversion disorder ,HYPNOSIS ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,conversion disorder ,05 social sciences ,Neuropsychology ,Neuropsychological test ,Original Articles ,medicine.disease ,DEPRESSION ,Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology ,Digit symbol substitution test ,neurocognitive functioning ,Female ,Nervous System Diseases ,Psychology ,Neurocognitive ,Developmental Psychopathology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Stroop effect ,Research Paper - Abstract
Contains fulltext : 222308.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) Neurocognitive symptoms are common in individuals with somatic symptom and related disorders (SSRD), but little is known about the specific impairments in neurocognitive domains in patients with conversion disorder (CD)/functional neurological disorder (FND). This study examines neurocognitive functioning in patients with CD/FND compared to patients with other SSRD. The sample consisted of 318 patients. Twenty-nine patients were diagnosed with CD/FND, mean age 42.4, standard deviation (SD) = 13.8 years, 79.3% women, and 289 patients had other SSRD (mean age 42.1, SD = 13.3, 60.2% women). Patients completed a neuropsychological test battery that addressed a broad range of neurocognitive domains, including information processing speed, attention and executive functioning. Patients with CD/FND had clinically significant neurocognitive deficits in all neurocognitive domains based on normative data comparison. Patients with CD/FND also performed significantly worse than patients with other SSRD on information processing speed (Digit Symbol Substitution Test (V = .115, p = .035), Stroop Color-Word Test (SCWT) card 1 (V = .190, p = .006), and SCWT card 2 (V = .244, p
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- 2020
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