Patterns of emotional-cognitive functioning in pediatric conversion patients: implications for the conceptualization of conversion disorders

• Published in: Psychosomatic medicine Vol. 73; no. 9; p. 775
• Main Authors: Kozlowska, Kasia, Scher, Stephen, Williams, Leanne M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.11.2011
• Subjects: Adaptation, Psychological; Adolescent; Basal Ganglia - physiopathology; Child; Cognition; Comorbidity; Conversion Disorder - epidemiology; Conversion Disorder - physiopathology; Conversion Disorder - psychology; Cross-Sectional Studies; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; Emotions; Female; Humans; Inhibition (Psychology); Life Change Events; Male; Memory, Episodic; Mental Disorders - epidemiology; Models, Psychological; Narration; Nerve Net - physiopathology; New South Wales; Prefrontal Cortex - physiopathology; Seizures - epidemiology; Seizures - psychology; New South Wales

To examine patterns of emotion processing in children and adolescents with conversion disorders and to determine whether those patterns are associated with particular clusters of conversion symptoms. Autobiographical narratives were used to investigate the organization of information about distressi...