Motor conversion disorders reviewed from a neuropsychiatric perspective

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 783-790

  Krem, Maxwell M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONVERSION DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSTONIA; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONVERSION DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSTONIA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 4344705436     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/JCP.v65n0609     Document Type: Review

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