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108| Functional Neurological Disorders – A Conversation With Dr. Mark Hallett

Navigating Neuropsychology

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Functional Disorders and FNDs

FNDs are often confused with feigning or factitious disorder or malingering, which include the intentional or voluntary production of symptoms. But FNDs are distinct from factitious disorder and malingering. In our patients almost invariably fall into the category of functional gate disorders. And that is a very interesting process of the brain to recognize when you are making a voluntary movement as opposed to some other type of movement. The node which activates most in physiological studies is around the light temporal parietal junction area.

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