Somatic Symptom And Related Disorders Practice Test

True or False: The diagnosis of conversion disorder requires that the symptoms be explained by neurological disease.

True False Not enough information Both true and false

Correct Answer:

False

Explanation:

The main idea is that conversion disorder (functional neurological symptom disorder) involves neurological-type symptoms that cannot be explained by any neurological or medical disease. Clinicians look for symptoms that are incompatible with neurology and for no medical condition that fully accounts for them. If a clear neurological disease explains the symptoms, it wouldn’t be labeled conversion disorder. So the diagnosis does not require that the symptoms be explained by a neurological disease; it’s diagnosed precisely when there is no adequate neurological explanation. This is why the statement is false.

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