Tag: somatic symptoms

November 19, 2025 / mohammed looti

Functional Neurological Disorder: Understanding Attitudes

Introduction: Defining Functional Disorders and Attitudinal Challenges Functional disorders, often categorized under terms like medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) or functional neurological symptom disorder (FND), represent a pervasive and challenging area within clinical medicine and psychology. These conditions are characterized by genuine, debilitating physical symptoms—such as chronic pain, fatigue, or movement abnormalities—for which routine medical investigation […]

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June 5, 2026 / mohammed looti

Somatosensory Perception: Decoding Your Body’s False Alarms

Defining Abnormal Bodily Sensations (ABS) Abnormal Bodily Sensations (ABS) refer to a heterogeneous group of subjective sensory experiences reported by an individual that deviate significantly from typical physical feelings and often lack clear, immediate correspondence with objective physiological findings or observable tissue damage. These sensations are fundamentally disorders of the somatosensory system, the complex network […]

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