Psychogenic movement disorders: Past developments, current status, and future directions

Movement Disorders

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1175-1186

  Lang, Anthony E ^a   Voon, Valerie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complex regional pain syndrome; Conversion disorders; Electrophysiology; Imaging; Psychogenic movement disorders

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSIS; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXERCISE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYOCLONUS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PARALYSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PLASTICITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENIC MOVEMENT DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREMOR;

DYSTONIC DISORDERS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 79957584675     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23571     Document Type: Review

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