Psychogenic movement disorders: A crisis for neurology

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 269-271

  Hallett, Mark ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSTONIA; FACTITIOUS DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; MALINGERING; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYOCLONUS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGY; NOTE; PARKINSONISM; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; TIC; TREMOR;

DYSTONIC DISORDERS; FACTITIOUS DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALINGERING; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NEUROLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 33746098163     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-006-0015-x     Document Type: Note

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