Author Question: Yassir has been under great stress at work. He tells his doctor that he cannot feel his hand from ... (Read 31 times)

FButt · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Yassir has been under great stress at work. He tells his doctor that he cannot feel his hand from his wrist to his fingertips. He says it is as though all the feeling in the nerves has been cut off at the wrist. The doctor, knowing how nerves are distributed, will probably see Yassir as having ____.

a. somatic symptom disorder with pain features (pain disorder)
b. functional neurological symptom disorder (conversion disorder)
c. factitious disorder imposed on another
d. illness anxiety disorder (hypochondriasis)

Question 2

Because glove anesthesia does not correspond to the distribution of nerve pathways in the body, it leads to a diagnosis of ____.

a. functional neurological symptom disorder (conversion disorder)
b. body dysmorphic disorder
c. complex somatic symptom disorder with somatization features (somatization disorder)
d. psychogenic pain