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Clinicians and Cognitive Bias: A Case of Frontotemporal Dementia Misdiagnosed as Conversion Disorder

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American Journal of Psychiatry
Pages: 690 - 693
PubMed: 31474126

History

Received: 11 May 2018
Revision received: 6 September 2018
Revision received: 15 October 2018
Revision received: 3 December 2018
Accepted: 10 December 2018
Published online: 1 September 2019
Published in print: September 01, 2019

Keywords

  1. Conversion Disorder
  2. Cognitive Heuristics

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Benjamin R. Braus, M.D.
The Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. (Braus, Rummans, Lapid, Morgan, Sampson, Handler); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego (Dimsdale).
Teresa A. Rummans, M.D. [email protected]
The Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. (Braus, Rummans, Lapid, Morgan, Sampson, Handler); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego (Dimsdale).
Maria I. Lapid, M.D.
The Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. (Braus, Rummans, Lapid, Morgan, Sampson, Handler); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego (Dimsdale).
Robert J. Morgan, M.D., Ph.D.
The Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. (Braus, Rummans, Lapid, Morgan, Sampson, Handler); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego (Dimsdale).
Shirlene M. Sampson, M.D., M.S.
The Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. (Braus, Rummans, Lapid, Morgan, Sampson, Handler); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego (Dimsdale).
Elliot M. Handler, M.D.
The Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. (Braus, Rummans, Lapid, Morgan, Sampson, Handler); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego (Dimsdale).
Joel E. Dimsdale, M.D.
The Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. (Braus, Rummans, Lapid, Morgan, Sampson, Handler); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego (Dimsdale).

Notes

Send correspondence to Dr. Rummans ([email protected]).

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Dr. Dimsdale is a consulting editor for UpToDate, and he receives royalties from Yale University Press. The other authors report no financial relationships with commercial interests.

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