Dissociation and its biological and clinical associations in functional neurological disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis.
Malcolm C CampbellAbigail SmakowskiMaya Rojas-AguiluzLaura H GoldsteinEtzel CardeñaTimothy R NicholsonAntje A T S ReindersSusannah PickPublished in: BJPsych open (2022)
Our findings highlight the potential clinical utility of assessing patients with FND for dissociative symptomatology. However, fewer studies investigated FND samples with motor symptoms and heterogeneity between studies and risk of bias were high. Rigorous investigation of the prevalence, features and mechanistic relevance of dissociation in FND is needed.