Psychogenic tremor: Clinical features, diagnostic approaches, differential diagnosis and therapeutic considerations;Psychogener tremor: Klinik, zusatzdiagnostik, differenzialdiagnose und therapeutische ansätze

Fortschritte der Neurologie Psychiatrie

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 647-654

  Dafotakis, Manuel ^a,b   Schonfeldt Lecuona C ^c   Fink, G R ^a,b   Nowak, D A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional disorder; Kinematic motion analysis; Malingering; Psychotherapy; Somatisation; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PSYCHOGENIC TREMOR; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREMOR; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; TREMOR;

EID: 57449094808     PISSN: 07204299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1038266     Document Type: Review

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