Organic Clues
A tag exploring clinical findings, objective abnormalities, and alternative disease processes that may point toward biological causes or warrant further investigation in cases labelled as FND.
Progression Demands Further Investigation
Christoff
Spousal caregiver
As soon as an FND diagnosis is made, the patient is thrust into a multidisciplinary treatment approach, which can include psychologists, psychiatrists, physiotherapists, and sometimes speech or occupational therapists, depending on how the disorder presents itself.
Cervical Stenosis, Hoover’s Sign, and Clinical Blind Spots
Christoff
Spousal caregiver
In Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), standard brain imaging (e.g. MRI, CT) usually appears normal, showing no structural damage, lesions, tumours, or other typical neurological signs, except when FND is comorbid with an organically confirmed neurological condition, such as multiple sclerosis, stroke, or epilepsy (like saying pain occurs alongside a bone fracture).
Using medication as a diagnostic tool
Christoff
Spousal caregiver
Over the centuries, doctors have devised a magnitude of methods to diagnose illnesses, from early clinical observations and skin prick tests, all the way through to X-rays, blood tests, ECGs, lumbar punctures, biopsies, mammograms, ultrasounds, endoscopies, stress tests, genetic testing, CT scans, MRIs, and functional imaging like PET scans, just to name a few.
