Publications by authors named "Dawn Golder"
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- Functional neurological disorder (FND) causes symptoms like paralysis and seizures and can be very serious, leading to high healthcare costs.
- Researchers plan to study the effects of psilocybin (a psychedelic) on people with FND to understand how it might help their condition.
- The study will look at brain activity and other factors related to FND both before and after people take psilocybin, tracking their experiences for three months.
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- Functional neurological disorder (FND) is a significant cause of neurological disability in Europe, but it receives inadequate attention in medical training compared to conditions like multiple sclerosis (MS).
- A survey of 25 countries revealed that FND is often not included in mandatory neurology training and has limited representation in examinations and specialized services.
- There is a notable disparity in access to care and disability benefits for FND patients, highlighting the need for improvements in education, healthcare policies, and patient advocacy.
Introduction: Functional neurological disorder (FND) refers to an involuntary loss of control over and/or aberrant perception of the body. Common presenting symptoms are functional (non-epileptic) seizures, and functional motor disorder, for example, walking difficulties, weakness or tremor. Greater access to effective treatments would lead to reduced distress and disability; and reduce unnecessary healthcare costs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFunctional Neurological Disorder (FND) is common and is often accompanied by multiple comorbid symptoms and conditions. There have been no large-scale studies exploring the change of its clinical manifestations and comorbidities. We used an online survey to assess FND patient characteristics, changes to fatigue, sleep and pain and comorbid symptoms and diagnoses, as well as treatment strategies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Purpose: Functional neurological disorder (FND) is common, and symptoms can be severe. There have been no international large-scale studies of patient experiences of FND.
Methods: A patient questionnaire was created to assess FND patient characteristics, symptom comorbidities and illness perceptions.
Occupational therapy consensus recommendations for functional neurological disorder.
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry
October 2020
Background: People with functional neurological disorder (FND) are commonly seen by occupational therapists; however, there are limited descriptions in the literature about the type of interventions that are likely to be helpful. This document aims to address this issue by providing consensus recommendations for occupational therapy assessment and intervention.
Methods: The recommendations were developed in four stages.