Most neurologists use it as a code for conversion disorder in an effort not to offend the patient.
Given the controversy over conversion disorder as a real diagnosis the term is most useful in an aetiological neutral sense.
Other such artifacts include conversion disorder, Briquet syndrome, and malingering.
Many scientists also believe that this is a conversion disorder, in which patients exhibit symptoms without any neurological cause.
However, it is not uncommon for patients with neurological disease to also have conversion disorder.
There is little evidence-based treatment of conversion disorder.
It can be seen in conversion disorder.
Many patients with psychogenic tremor have a conversion disorder or another psychiatric disease.
They may also have disorders of sensation similar to those in conversion disorder.
Hysterical blindness is an outmoded term for a condition now designated as a conversion disorder.