Editorial: Conversion disorder: Separating "how" from "why"

Neurology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 190-191

  Stone, Jon ^a   Vuilleumier, Patrik ^b   Friedman, Joseph H ^c  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^c Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEREBELLUM CORTEX; COMORBIDITY; CONVERSION DISORDER; EDITORIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

CONVERSION DISORDER; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES;

EID: 74949124716     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181cb4ea8     Document Type: Editorial

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