Emotional stimuli and motor conversion disorder

Brain

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1526-1536

  Voon, Valerie ^a,b   Brezing, Christina ^a   Gallea, Cecile ^a   Ameli, Rezvan ^c   Roelofs, Karin ^d   Lafrance, W Curt ^e   Hallett, Mark ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Amydala; Arousal; Conversion disorder; Psychogenic movement disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAIT DISORDER; HABITUATION; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOTOR CONVERSION DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREMOR;

EID: 77951920955     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awq054     Document Type: Article

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