Functional weakness: Clues to mechanism from the nature of onset

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 67-69

  Stone, Jon ^a   Warlow, Charles ^a   Sharpe, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE DURATION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL WEAKNESS; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRAINE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ONSET AGE; PANIC; PARASOMNIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 84155167718     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2011-300125     Document Type: Article

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