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Functional neurological disorder, physical activity and exercise: What we know and what we can learn from comorbid disorders.
Boylan, Kelly A, Dworetzky, Barbara A, Baslet, Gaston et al.·Epilepsy & behavior reports·2024
This review examines how exercise and physical activity might help people with functional neurological disorder (FND), a condition that causes neurological symptoms without a clear structural brain abnormality. The authors note that FND often occurs alongside other conditions like ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, and POTS, and they suggest that problems with the autonomic nervous system (which controls automatic body functions) may underlie these conditions. By looking at research on exercise in related disorders, they explore how physical activity might help regulate the nervous system and reduce symptoms.
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