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Conversion disorder (also referred to as functional neurological disorder) represents one of the most functionally impairing and clinically challenging illnesses in all of pediatric mental health. While conversion disorder can present clinically in multiple ways, from nonepileptic seizures to psychogenic blindness to upper‐ and/or lower‐extremity weakness with or without significant gait disturbance, these clinical manifestations all share in common the presence of functionally impairing motor and/or sensory symptoms that exist in the absence of a specific identifiable structural cause, and are assessed to be either caused by or propagated by emotional (and therefore neurochemical) factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]