During psychologically threatening mood states like panic or shame, FND symptoms may become amplified. This is also true for other negative emotion states like anger and anxiety.

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- Increased emotional Reactivity
- Heightened Arousal & Avoidance
- Impaired top-down emotion regulation
- Deficits in emotional awareness
- Aberrant salience processing,
- Errant activation of learned/innate defensive responses

Emotional Processing Deficits 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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