Narrative review analyzing the roughly 3:1 female predominance in functional neurological disorder by synthesizing biological (notably sex hormones), psychological (trauma, dissociation), and social (gender norms, socioeconomic) contributors and diagnostic biases.
Limited direct value for Parkinson's therapeutic discovery, but the paper highlights sex/gender, hormonal, and psychosocial factors that are important to consider in neurodegeneration research, trial design, and understanding comorbid neuropsychiatric presentations.