2022年1月11日 · Understanding what functional neurologic disorder is, that the symptoms are real, and that improvement is possible can help you with treatment choices and recovery.

2024年7月19日 · Early diagnosis and treatment can help lessen symptoms and aid in healing. Who is more likely to get functional neurologic disorder? Anyone can develop FND. It is more common in women and can affect both children and adults. Most people with functional movement disorders begin to have symptoms around their late 30s.

2018年4月1日 · Most patients with functional neurological disorders will require an integrated multidisciplinary approach to treatment. The diagnosing clinician should communicate with the treating physical therapist and/or mental health clinician, and everyone should agree on …

2024年10月1日 · Trapped within their own bodies, countless individuals grapple with the perplexing and often misunderstood realm of Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), yearning for a lifeline of effective treatments to reclaim control over their lives.

6 天之前 · Treatment Approaches for Functional Neurological Disorders in Children. Curr Treat Options Neurol. 2022. Curr Treat Options Neurol. 2022. Nisticò V, Iacono A, Goeta D, et al. Hypermobile spectrum disorders symptoms in patients with functional neurological disorders and autism spectrum disorders: A preliminary study .

The Functional Neurological Disorder Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford treats patients suffering from FND with a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach.

FND treatment can begin once a patient’s symptoms are validated, and the patient is diagnosed. The aim of FND treatment is to ‘retrain the brain’, for example by unlearning abnormal and dysfunctional movement patterns that have developed and relearning normal movement.

Treatment focuses on teaching you how to retrain your brain – helping you bring your movements, speech, thinking, or other neurological symptoms back to normal function. Treatment depends on the FND symptoms you have and is often ‘multidisciplinary.’

Treatment focuses on rehabilitation, understanding the condition, identifying triggers and warning signs, and improving coping. The goal is to improve your functioning and quality of life. FND is usually treated with a team approach.

There are a number of fairly simple techniques that we can show to people to help them to prevent functional seizures, anxiety and panic attacks and other symptoms such as flashbacks and nightmares. Some of these techniques are described in our leaflets that you can find here.