[Assessment and treatment of conversion disorder: the most fascinating borderline of psychiatry and neurology].

Conversion disorder or functional neurological disorder is a neurological symptom complex originating from psychological factors, which manifests in voluntary motor and sensory functions or as unexplained epilepsy-like seizures. Until the 1980's the disorder was called hysterical neurosis. Later on, various general terms, such as unexplained somatic symptoms, pseudoneurological, somatoformic, psychogenic, or psychosomatic symptoms, have been applied. The latest phrase, functional neurological symptoms, emphasizes the change in the functioning of the nervous system rather than in its structure.