Conversion disorder presents neurological symptoms that are:

• A. Cannot be explained by medical disease or culturally sanctioned behavior
• B. Fully explained by medical disease
• C. Under voluntary control by the patient
• D. Result from conscious deception

Answer: (A)

The main idea is that the neurological symptoms in conversion disorder are not explained by any medical disease and are not the result of culturally sanctioned patterns of illness. These symptoms are real to the patient, but they arise without conscious control and are not intentionally produced to deceive others. That nonvolitional, nonmedical nature is what sets them apart from conditions with a clear medical basis or from deliberate faking. In practice, you might see things like weakness, sensory loss, or seizures that don’t fit known neurological disease patterns and often occur after psychological stress.