Patterns of emotional-cognitive functioning in pediatric conversion patients: Implications for the conceptualization of conversion disorders

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 775-788

  Kozlowska, Kasia ^a,b,c,d   Scher, Stephen ^e,f   Williams, Leanne M ^b,c,d  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

conversion disorder; dissociative disorder; dynamic maturational model; emotion processing; integrative neuroscience

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSION DISORDER; EMOTION; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TIC; TREMOR; VOCALIZATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; BASAL GANGLIA; CHILD; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; CONVERSION DISORDER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NARRATION; NERVE NET; NEW SOUTH WALES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEIZURES;

EID: 80855138768     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e3182361e12     Document Type: Article

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