Functional Cognitive Disorder and Post-Concussion Memory Symptoms as Disorders of Distributed Memory Control: A Metacognitive-Systems Consolidation Framework

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27 Oct 2026 0 comments

Background: Memory problems are amongst the most troublesome and least understood of the symptoms in functional cognitive disorder (FCD) and in persistent post-concussion symptoms (PPCS). Standard neuropsychological testing typically shows only minor objective deficits, which results in a clear mismatch between the level of subjective distress and the actual degree of impairment. Current explanations of this discrepancy either attribute it to undetected hippocampal storage failure or regard it...