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 ____.

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Yassir's symptoms, where he reports a loss of sensation in his hand that does not align with the typical distribution of nerve pathways (since nerves run throughout the arm and hand in a complex network, not stopping at the wrist), suggest a psychological cause rather than a neurological or physical one. This aligns with a functional neurological symptom disorder (formerly known as conversion disorder), where patients experience neurological symptoms that cannot be explained by medical or neurological conditions.

Yassir Has Been Under Great Stress at Work