I think, therefore I forget – using experimental simulation of dementia to understand functional cognitive disorders

Symptoms of functional neurological disorder have traditionally been thought to depend, in part, on patients' ideas about symptoms rather than on the rules of pathophysiology. The possibility that functional cognitive symptoms might similarly reflect ideas of dementia has not been explored. We aimed to assess beliefs, through performance, about symptoms of dementia in healthy non-medical adults with the intention of identifying potential markers of functional cognitive disorders.