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 ...

If the oral arguments earlier this month offer any indication, the Supreme Court will uphold conversion therapy—and then some.

It may seem obvious that states can lawfully regulate, even proscribe, medical treatments that are ineffective, or even worse ...

Colorado's ban on the harmful and widely debunked practice could be ruled unconstitutional in the case of Chiles v Salazar.

A U.S. Army veteran lied about having a disorder and exaggerated his symptoms to scam the Department of Veterans Affairs out of disability benefits, according to federal authorities. Now Bruce Hay, of ...