Functional cognitive disorder: clinical features

Evidence-based neurology checklist on functional cognitive disorder: clinical features: Clinical features It may account for a third of patients in cognitive clinics It manifests with subjective cognitive symptoms The symptoms are not progressive The symptoms do not correlate with daily…

Clinical features

  • It may account for a third of patients in cognitive clinics
  • It manifests with subjective cognitive symptoms
  • The symptoms are not progressive
  • The symptoms do not correlate with daily functioning
  • The subjects typically resist reassurance

Exclusion features

Triggers

Cognitive impairments

Associated features

Differential diagnoses

Assessments

References

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  3. Pennington C, Hayre A, Newson M, Coulthard E. Functional cognitive disorder: a common cause of subjective cognitive symptoms. J Alzheimers Dis 2015; 48(Suppl 1):S19-S24.
  4. Kenfield MC, Arciniegas DB, Anderson CA, Howard KL, Filley CM. When cognitive evaluation does not disclose a neurologic disorder: experience of a university behavioral neurology clinic. Cogn Behav Neurol 2010; 23:112-118.
  5. Stone J, Pal S, Blackburn D, Reuber M, Thekkumpurath P, Carson A. Functional (psychogenic) cognitive disorders: a perspective from the neurology clinic. J Alzheimers Dis 2015; 48(Suppl 1):S5-S17. 
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