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The Case Against the ‘S’: Is Functional Neurological Disorder(s) One Condition or Many?

2026-03-23

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<h4>Background</h4> Functional neurological disorder (FND) is one of the most common, but least researched, conditions in neurology. Debate exists as to whether the clinical entity referred to as FND is truly a single disorder or is in fact multiple entities which have been erroneously amalgamated into the same condition. We sought to provide empirical evidence on this question by treating it as a problem of mode...

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Literature Corpus work: b99874ed-ca4e-5d2e-953d-42a1c02d9315
DOI: 10.64898/2026.03.19.26348846

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