Somatic Symptom And Related Disorders Practice Test

In conversion disorder, sensory deficits are a key feature when symptoms affect perception without an organic medical cause. These sensory manifestations often involve altered skin sensation, vision, or hearing, meaning the person experiences numbness, tingling, blindness, or deafness that cannot be traced to a neurological lesion and does not follow known neuroanatomical patterns. Importantly, these symptoms are not intentionally produced and don’t reflect a conscious fabrication. Memory loss is a dissociative phenomenon rather than a sensory deficit. Seizures described in this context are non-epileptic events and are motor rather than purely sensory. Gait abnormalities are motor signs. Therefore, the sensory option—altered skin sensation, vision, or hearing—is the best fit for what conversion disorder can present in terms of sensory symptoms.