What Is Conversion Disorder?
6. How Is It Diagnosed?
The most important step in conversion disorder diagnosis is to rule out alternative causes of the symptoms. A patient with another disease, disorder or damage to the brain has another medical condition that may have caused the particular movement or sense symptoms. Once other causes are ruled out there are a few criteria that health care professionals must observe before giving a diagnosis.
First, there should be one or more symptoms related to neurological dysfunction. These symptoms should have no reliable physical explanations, and the entire set of symptoms should have no known medical explanation. The case should also show significant enough impairment and distress to require medical attention or evaluation.
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