A tendency for a person to focus on a particular physiological system so much so to that it results in the neglect of other systems. It also describes a person's impaired ability to adaptively and volitionally shift their attention. 

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Individuals experience  many attention difficulties
- Attentional perseveration
- Difficulty attending to unaffected body parts
- Disruptions to sustained and selective attention
- Inefficient or impaired attentional shifting
- Involuntary attentional biases

Distorted Attention in FND

Drane, D. L., Fani, N., Hallett, M., Khalsa, S. S., Perez, D. L., & Roberts, N. A. (2021). A framework for understanding the pathophysiology of functional neurological disorder. CNS Spectrums, 26(6), 555-561–561. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1092852920001789

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