Functional cognitive disorders: How to diagnose and manage them? Discussion based on a clinical case

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17 Oct 2026 0 comments

Functional cognitive disorder (FCD) is a frequent and underrecognized cause of cognitive complaints. Long regarded as a diagnosis of exclusion, conceptual advances have allowed this condition to be integrated within the nosological framework of functional neurological disorders, and to be approached through a positive definition based on the identification of internal inconsistency signs. Nevertheless, establishing a diagnosis of FCD can prove challenging in clinical practice, particularly due...