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ArticleCNS spectrums2021

When neurologists diagnose functional neurological disorder, why don't they code for it?

Lorena DoVal Herbert, Rachel Kim, Asim Ao Hassan, Alison Wilkinson-Smith, Jeff L Waugh

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Article in CNS spectrums, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Unmet needs in functional neurological disorder related to digital healthcare.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026
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  5. Diagnostic labels in functional disorders.Future healthcare journal · 2025
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  11. Functional neurological disorder: Practical management.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025
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  14. Iatrogenic harm in functional neurological disorder.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Lorena DoVal Herbert
Rachel Kim
Asim Ao Hassan
Alison Wilkinson-Smith
Southwestern Medical Center · USThe University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · USChildren's Medical Center · US

Funding

NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS CTSA FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCHUL1RR024982 · NCRR · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI TOTO, ROBERT DANIEL · 2007 to 2011
$27.9M
NCRR NIH HHS UL1 RR024982
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID34521502
PMCPMC8920954
OpenAlexW3198982710

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Registered trials

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