ReviewFrontiers in psychiatry2018
Processing of Emotion in Functional Neurological Disorder.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A systematic review of personality-related factors associated with autonomy-connectedness in functional neurological disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Treatment of Functional Neurological Disorders.Journal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea) · 2026Review
- Sleep in Functional Motor Disorders: A Case-Control Polysomnographic Study.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- Exploring the autism and functional neurological disorder association: Considerations from biopsychosocial, neuropsychological and computational models.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026Review
- Stress-related neuroplasticity and developmental vulnerability in functional neurological disorder: from adverse experience to maladaptive overlearning.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2026Review
- Structured clinical diagnostic assessment reveals autism spectrum disorder in adults with functional neurological disorder.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Unraveling functional neurological disorder in pediatric populations: A systematic review of diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes.World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2025Article
- Pathophysiology of functional neurological disorder for the general neurologist.BMJ neurology open · 2025Review
- Content or context? A study protocol for a three-arm parallel randomised controlled trial of RBMJ open · 2023Article
- Socioemotional self- and co-regulation in functional seizures: comparing high and low posttraumatic stress.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- A new science of emotion: implications for functional neurological disorder.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2022Review
- Opinion, knowledge, and clinical experience with functional neurological disorders among Italian neurologists: results from an online survey.Journal of neurology · 2022Article
- Families With Violence Exposure and the Intergenerational Transmission of Somatization.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Individual differences in interoceptive accuracy and prediction error in motor functional neurological disorders: A DTI study.Human brain mapping · 2021Article
- Emotion Induced Monoamine Neuromodulator Release Affects Functional Neurological Disorders.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Review
- Functional Neurological Disorders as Seen by a Cohort of General Practitioners in Northern Italy: Evidence From an Online Survey.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
- Subjective versus objective measures of distress, arousal and symptom burden in patients with functional seizures and other functional neurological symptom disorder presentations: A systematic review.Epilepsy & behavior reports · 2021Review
- The spectrum of functional neurological disorders: A retrospective analysis at a tertiary hospital in South Africa.The South African journal of psychiatry : SAJP : the journal of the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa · 2021Article
- Processing of Emotions in Functional Movement Disorder: An Exploratory fMRI Study.Frontiers in neurology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Emotions have traditionally been considered crucial in the development of functional neurological disorder, but the evidence underpinning this association is not clear. We aimed to summarize evidence for association between functional neurological disorder and emotions as formulated by Breuer and Freud in their conception of hysterical conversion. Based on a systematic literature search, we identified 34 controlled studies and categorized them into four groups: (i) autonomic arousal, (ii) emotion-motion interactions, (iii) social modulation of symptoms, and (iv) bodily awareness in FND. We found evidence for autonomic dysregulation in FND; convergent neuroimaging findings implicate abnormal limbic-motor interactions in response to emotional stimuli in FND. Our results do not provide enough empirical evidence for social modulation of the symptoms, but there is a clinical support for the role of suggestion and placebo in FND. Our results provide evidence for abnormal bodily awareness in FND. Based on these findings, we propose that functional neurological symptoms are forms of emotional reactions shaped into symptoms by previous experience with illness and possibly reinforced by actual social contexts. Additional research should investigate the effect of social context on the intensity of functional neurological symptoms and associated brain regions.
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