Neurorehabilitation

Functional Neurological disorders

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Functional neurological disorder (FND) is a condition in which patients experience neurological symptoms such as weakness, movement disorders, sensory symptoms and blackouts.The brain of a patient with Functional Neurological Disorder is structurally normal, but functions incorrectly. In broad terms there is a problem with the patient's central nervous system, which is inappropriate functioning of signalling systems..

Functional Neurological Disorders (FND's) is the name coined upon the basis of the problems in the nervous system but in  real which are not caused by a physical neurological disease or disorder. Health professionals sometimes call these disorders ‘medically unexplained’, psychosomatic or somatisation. We prefer the term ‘functional’ which just means that the body is not functioning quite as it should.

Approximately one-sixth of all patients seen by the neurology service will receive a diagnosis of functional neurological disorders.

Key words: Functional neurological disorder (FND)  | movement disorders | psychosomatic | neurology