title: Hysteria--a neurologist's view.
abstract: Hysterical symptoms are defined as complaints that are not fully explained by organic or functional neurological disease. Hysterical symptoms are common in neurological practice, accounting for about 1% of neurological diagnoses. Of those with neurological hysterical symptoms, about 80% will not have the hysterical personality, and about 80% will not have Briquet's hysteria. Some 60% will have a physical disease and perhaps as many as 50% will have recognizable psychiatric illness, particularly depression. Others may have unrecognized physical or psychiatric illness. Many hysterical symptoms may be understood in terms of abnormal illness behaviour.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003291:Conversion Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007046:Hysteria / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D012803:Sick Role; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis