An 11-year-old boy’s painful chronic lockjaw may have been triggered by conversion disorder, a mental health condition that causes physical symptoms, according to a case report published on April 7 in ...
Anton Scamvougeras, MBChB, FRCPC, is a neuropsychiatrist in the UBC Neuropsychiatry Unit at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. He directs the Adult UBC Tourette's ...
Of all conditions treated in our field, perhaps none more clearly demonstrates the need for a dynamically-informed psychiatry than conversion disorder. The patient who presents with neurological ...