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 ...

Ashlyn Tierney's first high school swimming season couldn't be going better. She quickly broke a Chandler Arizona College Prep record in the 100-yard backstroke. She is aiming for a record in another ...

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 ...

The conservative majority on the Supreme Court seems likely to strike down Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy ...

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 ...