Motor inhibition in hysterical conversion paralysis

NeuroImage

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1026-1037

  Cojan, Yann ^a   Waber, Lakshmi ^b   Carruzzo, Alain ^c   Vuilleumier, Patrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c Division of Infectious Diseases Pourtalès Hospital   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Conversion paralysis; Go nogo; Inhibition; Precuneus; vmPFC

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSION DISORDER; DIARRHEA; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HYSTERICAL CONVERSION PARALYSIS; MOTIVATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOMITING;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONVERSION DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARALYSIS;

EID: 67651061179     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.05.023     Document Type: Article

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