
Clinical Professor, UBC Department of Psychiatry
Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, UBC Neuropsychiatry Program
Director, UBC Adult Tourette’s Syndrome Clinic
Email: anton.scamvougeras@ubc.ca
Publications
Scamvougeras A, Castle D. Functional Neurological Disorders: Challenging the Mainstream Agnostic Causative Position. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 2024;0(0). doi:10.1177/07067437241245957
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07067437241245957
Scamvougeras, A; Howard, A. Somatic Symptom Disorder, Medically Unexplained Symptoms, Somatoform Disorders, Functional Neurological Disorder: How DSM-5 Got It Wrong. Can J Psychiatry 2020 May; 65(5): 301-305. doi: 10.1177/0706743720912858
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0706743720912858
Scamvougeras A, Howard A. Understanding and Managing Somatoform Disorders: A Guide for Clinicians. Vancouver, Canada: AJKS Medical; 2018.
212 pages. ISBN 978-0-9952056-1-1.
Open Access pdf available at:
Scamvougeras A, Castle D. Are Functional Disorders Driven By Underlying Psychological Distress? Sage perspectives, invited blog, 2024 April 25.
Leong, K; Joseph CW Tham, JCW; Scamvougeras, A; Vila-Rodriguez, F. Electroconvulsive therapy treatment in patients with somatic symptom and related disorders. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2015; 11: 2565–2572
Wald, J; Taylor, S; Scamvougeras, A. Cognitive Behavioural and Neuropsychiatric Treatment of Post-Traumatic Conversion Disorder: a Case Study. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 2004, 33, 12–20
Scamvougeras, A; Kigar, DL; Jones, D; Weinberger, DR; Witelson, SF. Size Of The Human Corpus Callosum Is Genetically Determined: An MRI Study In Mono And Dizygotic Twins. Neuroscience Letters, 2003, 338, 91-94.
Scamvougeras, A. Challenging Phenomenology in Tourette’s Syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Benefits of Reductionism. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 2002, Feb, Bulletin, 17-19
Scamvougeras, A; Greene, SL; Norman, A; Bonomo, Y; Castle, DJ. The fentanyls: a ‘future threat’ for Australia? Australasian Psychiatry, 2020 May 11; 28(5): 545-547. DOI 10.1177/1039856220917074
Interviews
An Interview with Anton Scamvougeras. Mark Ruffalo, Psychology Today. May 29, 2024.
Part 1: From Conversion to FND:
Part 2: Treatment for FND:
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