Conversion disorder is a psychiatric condition in which a person develops physical symptoms that are not under voluntary control and are not explained by a neurological disease or another medical ...
The brain is a complex organ that produces all kinds of physical and emotional effects on your body. Sometimes, emotional trauma or psychological stress can trigger physical symptoms. When this ...
For seemingly no physical reason, you find yourself paralyzed and can't speak. It sounds like the plot of a horror movie you'd watch on Halloween night with the lights off, but such frightening ...
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a challenge to a Colorado law banning mental health practitioners from ...
It may seem obvious that states can lawfully regulate, even proscribe, medical treatments that are ineffective, or even worse ...
As the fate of a couple of bills in the Michigan Legislature that would ban the practice of conversion therapy continues to look uncertain, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took bold action Monday. Whitmer ...
About half of the states have laws banning conversion therapy for patients under the age of 18, including Colorado, whose law ...
The conservative majority on the Supreme Court seems likely to strike down Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy ...
Colorado and over 20 other states have banned the practice aimed at changing the sexual orientation or gender identity of ...
Colorado's ban on the harmful and widely debunked practice could be ruled unconstitutional in the case of Chiles v Salazar.
For some people, perhaps even many people, disordered thinking shows up primarily in physical symptoms. At one extreme, such symptoms constitute conversion disorder. What do such symptoms means, and ...