Within DSM IV the attacks are classified as a somatoform disorder, whilst in ICD 10 the term dissociative convulsions is used, classed as a conversion disorder.
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An evolutionary psychology explanation for this disorder, as well as for conversion disorder more generally, is that the symptom may have been evolutionary advantageous during warfare.
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Although the term " conversion disorder " has been in existence for many years, the term " hysteria " was still being used in the 20th century.
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Furthermore, throughout its history, many patients have been misdiagnosed with hysteria or conversion disorder when they had organic disorders such as tumours or epilepsy or vascular diseases.
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Although agitation is often assumed to be a positive sign of conversion disorder, release of epinephrine is a well-demonstrated cause of paralysis from hypokalemic periodic paralysis.
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In the context of a positive Hoover's sign, functional weakness ( or " conversion disorder " ) is much more likely than malingering or factitious disorder.
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The Chinese medical literature includes a wider variety of symptoms associated with qigong deviation; the non-psychotic symptoms correspond to conversion disorder and histrionic personality disorder in Western classifications.
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Some doctors still follow Freud's theory about conversion disorder; however, others are moving on to look at the role of the central nervous system in FNsD symptoms.
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^ar V, Aky�z G, Kundakc1 T, K1z1ltan E, Dogan O ( 2004 ) : Childhood trauma, dissociation and psychiatric comorbidity in patients with conversion disorder.
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In 1980, the American Psychiatric Association officially changed the diagnosis of " hysterical neurosis, conversion type " ( the most extreme and effective type ) to " conversion disorder ".
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