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'I couldn't make my legs move': Medical tests show nothing wrong, but Merran deals with a very real condition

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Functional Neurological Disorder is one of medicine's most challenging mysteries and those who suffer from it often have to deal with scepticism and misdiagnosis as well as the very real symptoms.

Professor Richard Kanaan, a psychiatrist from Austin Health, has been studying FND for 20 years and specialises in treating patients with the condition."A lot of the greatest minds in neurology and psychiatry have tried to grapple with explaining this."

"These patients are fearful, they don't know where to go, they don't know who to see, they often get the run-around and they re-present to emergency time and time again," she told 7.30. While patients show symptoms similar to a range of neurological problems, such as MS or stroke, tests reveal no biological evidence.

 

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