Somatic yoga therapy for functional neurological disorder: An experimental pilot study examining cognitive and affective mechanisms

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24 Oct 2026 0 comments

Accumulating evidence suggests alterations in neurocognitive, affective, interoceptive and autonomic processing in functional neurological disorder (FND), yet interventions targeting these processes remain underexplored. This study investigated the possible immediate and six-week effects of a somatic yoga intervention on cognitive control, emotion regulation, state dissociation and affect, autonomic arousal, and interoceptive processing in FND. Twenty-three adults with FND began the study (yoga...