ReviewNature reviews. Neurology2023
Why functional neurological disorder is not feigning or malingering.
Review in Nature reviews. Neurology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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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.
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Who cites it
35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 63 citations in OpenAlex.
- Functional visual loss: a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiology, prognosis and treatment.Eye (London, England) · 2026Pooled it
- Combined Physiotherapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Functional Movement Disorders: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA neurology · 2024Trial
- Imaging biomarkers in functional neurological disorders.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026Review
- Mind the gap: making headway in functional visual loss.Eye (London, England) · 2026Article
- Diagnostic Agreement and 1-Year Outcomes in Functional Neurological Disorder Following Neuroscience-Informed Assessment, Education, and Counseling: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- A service evaluation of the recognition, care and management of functional seizures within a UK ambulance service.British paramedic journal · 2026Article
- Experiences of stigma in children with long COVID.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- Alexithymia, self-reported external gain expectations, and overreporting on symptom validity tests in hospital patients: further evidence for the relevance of alexithymia.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2026Article
- Diagnostic Overshadowing in Functional Neurological Disorder Leading to a Diagnosis of Acute Motor and Sensory Axonal Neuropathy: A Case Report.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- The Medicolegal Implications of Functional Neurological Disorder.Seminars in neurology · 2026Review
- Characterizing Visual Field Defects with Tangent Screen Perimetry in Organic Versus Non-Organic Pathologies.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 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
- Emergent technologies in clinical neurophysiology to study the neuromuscular system: IFCN handbook chapter.Clinical neurophysiology practice · 2026Review
- Functional/dissociative seizures in a single women's rehabilitation center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a single-center case series and thematic analysis of neuropsychiatric presentation, cultural meaning, and structural barriers to care.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Clinical and demographic associations of recorded feigning in functional neurological disorder.Brain communications · 2026Article
- Variation in Repeated Handgrip Strength Testing Indicates Submaximal Force Production in Patients With Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.European journal of neurology · 2025Article
- Functional Movement Disorder: Evolving Mechanisms, Diagnostic Precision, and Personalized Multidisciplinary Care.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2025Review
- Comorbidities Across Functional Neurological Disorder Subtypes: A Comprehensive Narrative Synthesis.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Genome-wide study of somatic symptom and related disorders identifies novel genomic loci and map genetic architecture.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Iatrogenic harm in functional neurological disorder.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2025Review
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Functional neurological disorder (FND) is one of the commonest reasons that people seek help from a neurologist and is for many people a lifelong cause of disability and impaired quality of life. Although the evidence base regarding FND pathophysiology, treatment and service development has grown substantially in recent years, a persistent ambivalence remains amongst health professionals and others as to the veracity of symptom reporting in those with FND and whether the symptoms are not, in the end, just the same as feigned symptoms or malingering. Here, we provide our perspective on the range of evidence available, which in our view provides a clear separation between FND and feigning and malingering. We hope this will provide a further important step forward in the clinical and academic approach to people with FND, leading to improved attitudes, knowledge, treatments, care pathways and outcomes.
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