Conversion disorder revisited

Functional Neurology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 105-113

  Ballmaier, Martina ^a,b   Schmidt, Roger ^a,c  

^a Kliniken Schmieder Konstanz   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate; Depression; Hysteria; Neuroimaging; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONVERSION DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISSOCIATION; FAMILY HISTORY; HUMAN; HYSTERIA; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONVERSION DISORDER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 30644458847     PISSN: 03935264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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