Book chapter
Psychogenic Movement Disorders
Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders, pp.165-185
Current Clinical Neurology, Humana Press
2012
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-120-2_7
Abstract
Psychogenic movement disorders (PMDs) are defined as follows: “those movement disorders which cannot be fully accounted for by any known organic syndrome and which appear as based on available clinical evidence to have significant psychological and/or psychiatric contributants” [1] and have been variously labeled as functional, pseudoneurologic, psychosomatic, hysterical, and nonorganic [2, 3]. PMDs can be either hyperkinetic, such as myoclonus, or hypokinetic, such as parkinsonism. This chapter deals with hyperkinetic PMDs, including tremor, dystonia, myoclonus, tic, chorea/athetosis, gait disorders, and exaggerated startle reflex.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Psychogenic Movement Disorders
- Creators
- Teri R Thomsen - Neurology 2 RCP, University of Iowa Hospital and Clinic, Iowa City, USAJanis M Miyasaki - Department of Medicine (Neurology), University of Toronto, The Movement Disorder Centre, Toronto, Canada
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders, pp.165-185
- Publisher
- Humana Press; Totowa, NJ
- Series
- Current Clinical Neurology
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-60327-120-2_7
- ISSN
- 1559-0585
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2012
- Academic Unit
- Neurology
- Record Identifier
- 9984020632002771
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