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Psychogenic movement disorders.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW This review focuses on recent studies assessing clinical features and laboratory findings that may help diagnose psychogenic movement disorders, and the ongoing controversy about the relationship of these disorders with preceding peripheral injury. RECENT FINDINGS 'Organic' movement disorders may still be misdiagnosed as psychogenic. Probably more commonly, however, psychoge...
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Abnormal movements and postures resulting from primary psychiatric disease are a diagnostic dilemma because all types of movement disorders may be mimicked by a psychogenic disease, including akinetic-rigid and hyperkinetic disorders, with the latter more frequent, particularly tremor, myoclonus, and dystonia (Williams et al., 2005; Reich, 2006). Psychogenic movement disorders (PMDs), are a val...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Neurologic Clinics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0733-8619
DOI: 10.1016/j.ncl.2009.04.008