Hiding in Plain Sight: Functional Neurological Disorders in the News

Stoyan Popkirov¹, Timothy R Nicholson¹, Bastiaan R Bloem¹+21

• ¹The Department of Neurology, University Hospital Knappschaftskrankenhaus, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany (Popkirov); the Section of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London (Nicholson); the Department of Neurology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Bloem); the Institute of Medical and Biomedical Education, St. George's University of London and Atkinson Morley Regional Neuroscience Centre, St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London (Cock); the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Derry); the Department of Neurology, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand (Duncan); the Department of Neurology, Edward B. Bromfield Epilepsy Program, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (Dworetsky); the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Sciences, St. George's University of London (Edwards, Morgante); the Department of Neurology, Gardner Family Center for Parkinson Disease and Movement Disorders, University of Cincinnati (Espay); the Human Motor Control Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, Md. (Hallett); the Morton and Gloria Shulman Movement Disorders Clinic and Edmond J. Safra Program in Parkinson's Disease, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto (Lang); Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom (Leach); the Mater Centre for Neurosciences and School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (Lehn); the Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, INSERM, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France; the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Hôpital de la Timone, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, Marseille, France (McGonigal); the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy (Morgante); the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, Functional Neurology Research Group, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (Perez); the Academic Neurology Unit, University of Sheffield, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield, United Kingdom (Reuber); the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College London (Richardson); the Department of Neurology, Alan Richens Epilepsy Unit, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom (Smith); the HYGEIA Hospital, Athens, Greece (Stamelou); the Neurology Clinic, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany (Stamelou); the University of Athens, Greece (Stamelou); the Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands (Tijssen); the Neurology Unit, Movement Disorders Division, University of Verona, Verona, Italy (Tinazzi); and the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Carson, Stone).