Conversion disorder requires one or more symptoms from which two categories?

• A. Motor, Sensory
• B. Cognitive, Emotional
• C. Visual, Auditory
• D. Neurological, Psychological

Answer: (A)

This item tests that conversion disorder presents with deficits in domains of motor or sensory function. The defining features are one or more symptoms of altered voluntary motor function (such as weakness, tremor, or gait abnormalities) or altered sensory function (such as numbness or non-dermatomal sensory loss) that are not explained by medical disease after appropriate evaluation. So the two symptom categories are motor and sensory. Cognitive or emotional symptoms aren’t the focal domains for this diagnosis, and “visual” or “auditory” would still fall under sensory, not a separate category. Likewise, calling them neurological versus psychological isn’t how the symptom pattern is defined—the emphasis is on motor or sensory impairment.