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May 2022
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Mark Hallett on functional neurological ...

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Mark Hallett (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, USA) discusses his Review, published in the June issue of The Lancet Neurology, on functional neurological disorder, and talks about new subtypes of this disorder, diagnostic challenges, and how education is important.

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Functional neurological disorder: new subtypes and shared mechanisms

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