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The term 'functional' has a distinguished history, embodying a number of physiological concepts, but has increasingly come to mean 'hysterical'. The DSM-V working group proposes to use 'functional' as the official diagnostic term for medically unexplained neurological symptoms (currently known as 'conversion disorder'). This study aimed to explore the current neurological meanings of the term and to understand its resilience.
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Software suite for qualitative data analysis for text-based data and higher-order forms of data. Various packages are available and are dependent on the system used and the type of data analysis needed.
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