Functional Disorders

Must have positive evidence of a functional disorder. No longer requires a

psychological stimulus.
Present acutely with stroke like symptoms, or with severe weakness.
Hoovers sign week hip flexion. Contralateral back to normal.
Gait disorder dragging leg. Dont se this in anything else.
Thinking about the individual movement is actually a lot worse than
thinking of what you want to achieve.
Learn difference between dissociative and epileptic attacks. Ask simple
questions in the history to guide it.
The involuntary nature of conversion disorder.