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Chapter 3 - Spurious Symptoms and Behaviors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2023

Robert Laureno
Robert Laureno
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Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

Quasi-neurological problems can be spurious, the product of the mind or emotions. Distinguishing such conditions from coarse brain disease is accomplished by systematic neurologic analysis. Many of these patients are depressed or malingering. Intense emotions may account for other cases. In a given patient more than one of these terms may be applicable.

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HysteriaConversion reactionPsychogenicFunctionalFactitiousMalingererMunchausen syndrome
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Insights into Clinical Neurology , pp. 14 - 24
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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