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Conversion Disorder
- See Also
- Epidemiology
- Onset between age 10 to 35 years
- Demographics
- More common in rural regions
- More common with lower socioeconomic resources
- Diagnosis: Conversion Disorder
- Must meet criteria for a Somatoform Disorder
- Unexplained physical symptoms
- Not due to condition of Secondary Gain (Malingering or Factitious Disorder)
- Causes dysfunction
- Specific Conversion Disorder Criteria
- Single unexplained symptom
- Symptom related to voluntary motor or sensory functioning (pseudoneurologic)
- See Somatization Symptoms: Neurologic
- Must meet criteria for a Somatoform Disorder
- Signs
- Neurologic symptoms that cannot be explained by anatomic pathways
- Example: Hemiparesis with normal reflexes and muscle tone
- References
Conversion disorder (C0009946) | |
|---|---|
| Definition (MSH) | A disorder whose predominant feature is a loss or alteration in physical functioning that suggests a physical disorder but that is actually a direct expression of a psychological conflict or need. |
| Concepts | Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction (T048) |
| ICD9 | 300.11, 300.11 |
| MSH | D003291 |
| English | CONVERSION DIS, Conversion disorder, Conversion Disorders, Conversion Hysteria, Conversion hysteria or reaction, Conversion Hysterias, Conversion Hysterical Neurosis, Conversion Reaction, Conversion Reactions, HYSTERIA CONVERSION TYPE, NEUROSIS CONVERSION, Psychologic conversion disorder, REACTION CONVERSION |
| Spanish | trastorno de conversion, trastorno de conversion psicologica |
| Parent Concepts | Hysteria (C0020701), Dissociative, conversion and factitious disorders (C1456314), Somatoform Disorder (C0037650), Disturbance of perception associated with conversion and dissociative phenomenon (C0233748), Reason not stated concept (C1276325) |
| Sources | AOD, COSTAR, CSP, CST, DXP, ICD9CM, MSH, MTH, MTHICD9, NDFRT, SCTSPA, SNOMEDCT Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) |