Conversion Disorder

Storie di ordinaria isteria: quando una bambina dice che non vede

Nucci P.

2026/1 — pag. 57-58 — DOI

The case of Giulia, a nine-year-old girl with progressive visual difficulties in the absence of organic findings, illustrates a common functional presentation in paediatrics. The symptom, fluctuating and inconsistent with ocular pathology, serves a c...

Arterite di Takayasu in paziente con febbre persistente sine focus

Demontis C, Stagi C.

2026/1 — pag. 56-56 — DOI

A 10-year-old boy was hospitalized for fever of unknown origin (FUO) and elevated inflammatory markers. After ruling out oncological causes, a total-body MRI revealed ‘cuff-like’ inflammation of the aorta that led to a diagnosis of Takayasu arteri...

Astasia-abasia psicogena a 13 anni... è possibile?

Menghi A, Addeo A, Radice C, Vignutelli L, Marchetti F.

2026/1 — pag. 53-56 — DOI

Anna, a 13-year-old girl with a family background of separation and fluctuating academic performance, manifested sudden gait disturbances and muscle weakness. Despite the alarming symptoms, all clinical investigations (CT scan, EEG, blood tests) w...

Il disturbo da conversione

Nardin B.

2025/10 — pag. 661-663 — DOI

A young girl arrives at the hospital unconscious, although her vital signs are stable, with no signs of neurological or metabolic damage. The father reports that she has recently shown signs of anxiety and sadness due to her mother’s illness. After a...

Storie di pazienti con ADHD

Skabar A.

2025/10 — pag. 661-663 — DOI

When is a child’s liveliness excessive or at least should it make the paediatrician think of ADHD? The answer is in some of the stories of hyperactive children that have been collected over the years....

Non sentire i piedi e non essere capace di camminare

Guala A

2025/8 — pag. 211-212 — DOI

The paper reports the case of an 11-year-old boy with sudden onset of stocking-like anaesthesia and inability to walk, without objective neurological or systemic abnormalities. Laboratory and imaging studies were unremarkable. Following a suggestive ...

Questa volta la sigla è PNES: crisi psicogene non epilettiche

Brienza C, Caputo OO, Ranucci G, Nunziata F

2025/5 — pag. 122-122 — DOI

A 13-year-old girl with a prior diagnosis of epilepsy presented to the emergency room following a prolonged generalized seizure. Despite ongoing antiepileptic therapy, she experienced recurrent seizures requiring hospitalization. During admission, sh...

Una bambina che non vuole camminare

Penco A.

2024/6 — pag. 396-396 — DOI

The paper describes the case of an eight-year-old girl presenting with limping, worsening bilateral foot sole pain: the unmistakable symptoms (refusal to stand and walk) contributed to the diagnosis of conversion/factitious disorder....

Questioni di genere

Bonazza P.

2022/7 — pag. 458-460 — DOI

The Author describes the case of a 12-year-old boy with gender dysphoria...

Occhio non vede, cuore che duole: la diagnosi del disturbo da conversione e da sintomi somatici

Menghi A, Radice C, Serafini M, Facchini L, Dal Bo S, Marchetti F.

2022/7 — pag. 458-460 — DOI

Two cases representative of two different aspects of the somatic disorder are described. The Authors stress how the diagnosis of a somatic disorder may be positively posed....

Indovina chi? Uno dei due “mente”

Sette C, Ricci M.

2022/6 — pag. 396-398 — DOI

Two intriguing cases in which a somatic disease has been suspected are presented. The diagnosis of a functional disorder was confirmed for only one of them....

Indovina chi? Uno dei due “mente”

Sette C, Ricci M

2022/6 — pag. 136-136 — DOI

Two intriguing cases in which a somatic disease has been suspected are presented. The diagnosis of a functional disorder was confirmed for only one of them....

Le urgenze neuropsichiatriche in un Pronto Soccorso

A. Imperatore, C. Brienza, S. De Stefano

2018/7 — pag. 456-458

Herpes zoster e lattante Una tosse psicogena

2018/3 — pag. 197

Un’epilessia “criptogenetica”

E. Poletto, R. Semenzato, E. Ravagnan

2018/2 — pag. 115-117

Adolescenti perduti: la storia di Nino

F. Fusco

2018/1 — pag. 53-54

Adolescenti perduti e madri catastrofiche

D. Sambugaro

2018/1 — pag. 53-54

Urgenze neurologiche in Pediatria: il caso della perdita acuta del visus

A. Suppiej

2018/1 — pag. 42-46

Acute loss of vision in children is a worrying sign for both patients and physicians. In the absence of obvious ophthalmological signs, the paediatrician is faced with the challenge of distinguishing a functional (non-organic) disorder from potenti...

PEDIATRIA DEI NOSTRI TEMPI. OVVERO: “PIÙ MATTI CHE MALATI”Intendiamoci sulle parole: le schede per la diagnosi dal DSM-V

2018/1 — pag. 19-20

Era entrato quasi in barella

T. Montini

2017/9

Bambini posseduti... dalla metoclopramide

I. Giuseppin

2017/1 — pag. 54-56

I dintorni della Münchausen attraverso i casi

E. Panontin, S. Nider, M. Tubaro, V. Vellante

2014/8 — pag. 497-510

“Vocal cord dysfunction”: quando l’asma non convince

S. Dal Bo, R. Meneghetti, G. Longo

2008/7 — pag. 445-450

The vocal cord dysfunction syndrome is a disease characterized by short crisis of dyspnea due to a paradoxical movement in adduction of vocal cords, with consequent laringeal narrowing, mainly inspiratory dyspnea/apnea and choking feeling. This man...

I disturbi somatoformi

F. Panizon

1999/5 — pag. 323-325

Una strana macroematuria

G. Nassimbeni, T. Basso, P. Brovedani, F. Fior, R. Pettarin, A. Calligaris

1998/7 — pag. 465-466

I sintomi che parlano Parte seconda

A. Ventura, G. Longo

1998/3 — pag. 173-175