About this website:
This website is about Functional Neurological Disorder (FND). This is when someone has NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS (such as limb weakness, numbness, shaking or blackouts) which are:
Some people have troublesome symptoms that they wish to understand without necessarily having a ‘disorder’ – these are called functional neurological symptoms, and this site is for you too.
FND and functional symptoms surprisingly common but can be difficult for patients and health professionals to understand.
This website, written by a neurologist with a special interest in these problems, aims to give you a better understanding of these symptoms. It has no advertising and is free. I hope you find it useful.
-Professor Jon Stone, Consultant Neurologist, Edinburgh
How to use this website:
Most people with functional or dissociative neurological symptoms have a combination of symptoms like “weakness, numbness and fatigue” or “blackouts and sleep problems”
Scroll down and Click on a symptom or use the menu above to explore the symptoms that are relevant to you.
Click on ‘Causes’ to discover what is known about….
• what is going wrong in the body when they do happen. (Mechanisms)
• why people become vulnerable to these symptoms (Causes)
• what is known about the accuracy of the diagnosis (Misdiagnosis)
Click on ‘Not imagined’ for some answers to this issue
Click on ‘Treatment’ for discussion of what treatments may help
Click on ‘Videos’ or ‘Stories’ for some real patient stories
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We will be re-directing you to the University of Edinburgh’s donate page, which enable donations in a secure manner on our behalf. We use donations for keeping the site running and further FND research.
