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- Published on: 14 April 2016
- Published on: 14 April 2016Functional symptoms in neurology-making the right diagnosisShow More
The borderland between functional diseases and neurological diseases gets blurred especially when the patient presents with a myriad of symptoms which do not localize to any one level of the neural axis.1 If in addition the neurological examination is normal (especially the lack of 'hard' neurological signs such as upgoing plantars, cranial nerve signs, definite asymmetry of the deep tendon reflexes, cerebellar signs and...
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