Ghaffar and colleagues completed a brain study with conversion disorder patients and found that

a. stimulation of limbs resulted in impaired brain activity for both healthy and “numb” limbs
b. stimulation of limbs resulted in impaired brain activity for healthy but not “numb” limbs
c. stimulation of limbs resulted in impaired brain activity for “numb” but not healthy limbs
d. there were no differences between this group and the healthy controls


Ans: C

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