Psychogenic movement disorders in two children

Movement Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1395-1397

  Özekmekçi, Sibel ^a,b   Apaydin, Hulya ^a   Ekinci, Burçak ^a   Yalçinkaya, Cengiz ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Cerrahpaşa Medical School ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Gait; Psychogenic; Tremor

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CASE REPORT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COLLAPSE; GAIT DISORDER; HAND DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENESIS; SCHOOL CHILD; STANDING; TREMOR; TRUNK; WALKING;

CHILD; DYSTONIC DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 1342283775     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.10539     Document Type: Article

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