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Conversion Disorder

"Conversion Disorder" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A disorder whose predominant feature is a loss or alteration in physical functioning that suggests a physical disorder but that is actually a direct expression of a psychological conflict or need.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Conversion Disorder" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Conversion Disorder" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 90 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 14 publications in 2021
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.