In the third episode of the ETUDE podcast series ‘Not so invisible’ early stage researchers Franzi, Saya and Tara talk about their quest to find out more about the underlying mechanisms of functional disorders. This episode will focus around the main question: ‘what is it that’s going on in the body of a person with a functional disorder?’. By focusing on biological an psychological factors contributing to how symptoms can develop and how they persist over time will help to clear the fog around what we mean when we talk about functional disorders.