IC4: Rehabilitation for Functional Neurological Disorder--the Works

Monday, October 27, 2025

8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Location: ROOM: Waldorf Room >>> DIRECTIONS: Third Floor >>> From the Main Elevator Bank, proceed left. Waldorf is the first room on your left.

Corresponding Presenter(s)

Victor W. Mark, MD (he/him/his)

Associate Professor
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, United States

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Nicole Mannion, MA, OTR/L

Senior Occupational Therapist
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Foxborough, MA, United States

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Eva Keatley, PhD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, United States

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Jennifer L. Freeburn, MS, CCC-SLP (she/her/hers)

Speech-Language Pathologist
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, United States

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This half-day Instructional Course will review the rehabilitation for Functional Neurological Disorder (FND). FND involves fluctuating voluntary control of neurological activities, worse with self-attention or emotional upset. FND is common but underdiagnosed and poorly understood. FND is a neurological disorder and neither a psychiatric illness nor malingering. This Course will review the diagnosis of FND and efficacy of psychological, occupational, and speech-language therapy for this disorder. Participants will come away with an improved understanding of this disorder and better able to treat these individuals.

Learning Objectives:

understand the origin of medical understanding for Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)
understand the assessment of FND
understand the method of psychological treatment for FND
understand occupational therapy techniques for treating FND
understand speech-language therapy techniques for treating FND