The functional neuroimaging correlates of psychogenic versus organic dystonia

Brain

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 770-781

  Schrag, Anette E ^a   Mehta, Arpan R ^b   Bhatia, Kailash P ^a   Brown, Richard J ^c   Frackowiak, Richard S J ^a,d   Trimble, Michael R ^a   Ward, Nicholas S ^a   Rowe, James B ^b,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^e MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attention; basal ganglia; cerebellum; dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; DYT1 gene; fixed dystonia; functional imaging; motor; psychogenic movement disorder

Indexed keywords

WATER O 15;

ADULT; ANKLE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSTONIA; DYT1 GENE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL OPERCULUM; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INSULA; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MANOMETRY; MESENCEPHALON; ORGANIC DYSTONIA; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENIC DYSTONIA; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; THALAMUS LATERAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 84874845646     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awt008     Document Type: Article

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