Clinical Neurophysiology of Myoclonus
Clinical Neurophysiology of Myoclonus Peter Brown ABSTRACT Few tests are available that help in the positive diagnosis of psychogenic movement disorders. The presence of a readiness potential prior to muscle…
Role of Anesthesia in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychogenic Movement Disorders
Role of Anesthesia in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychogenic Movement Disorders Stanley Fahn ABSTRACT When a patient presents with fixed postural deformities that do not yield to passive manipulation…
The Sodium Amytal and Benzodiazepine Interview and Its Possible Application in Psychogenic Movement Disorders
The Sodium Amytal and Benzodiazepine Interview and Its Possible Application in Psychogenic Movement Disorders Susanne A. Schneider Kailash P. Bhatia ABSTRACT Sodium amytal, a medium-acting barbiturate, was first described in…
Hypnosis and Psychogenic Movement Disorders
Hypnosis and Psychogenic Movement Disorders John J. Barry ABSTRACT Many physicians have investigated hypnosis in the past for use in the diagnosis and treatment of movement disorders, especially those of…
Neuroimaging of Hysteria
Neuroimaging of Hysteria Gereon R. Fink Peter W. Halligan John C. Marshall ABSTRACT The potential of imaging the functional neuroanatomy of hysteria was first recognized in the closing decades of…
The Cognitive Executive Is Implicated in the Maintenance of Psychogenic Movement Disorders
The Cognitive Executive Is Implicated in the Maintenance of Psychogenic Movement Disorders Sean A. Spence ABSTRACT Psychogenic movement disorders (PMDs) comprise a range of functional abnormalities characterized by motor inconsistencies…
Consciousness
Consciousness Adam Zeman ABSTRACT The topic of consciousness is relevant to psychogenic movement disorders, both because of close conceptual links between consciousness and volition, and because our understanding of psychogenesis…
The Neurophysiology of Voluntary Movement in Nonhuman Primates: Accumulator Models of Decision and Action in Relation to Psychogenic Movement Disorders
The Neurophysiology of Voluntary Movement in Nonhuman Primates: Accumulator Models of Decision and Action in Relation to Psychogenic Movement Disorders Steven P. Wise Jerald D. Kralik ABSTRACT According to some…
Voluntary and Involuntary Movements in Humans
Voluntary and Involuntary Movements in Humans Mark Hallett ABSTRACT Psychogenic movements may be voluntary or involuntary. If voluntary, the mechanism is factitious or malingering and the patient is lying. Most…
Somatization Disorder: Briquet’s Hysteria
Somatization Disorder: Briquet’s Hysteria Michael Trimble INTRODUCTION The term “hysteria” is as old as the earliest medical writings, and classic descriptions of symptoms we now refer to as conversion disorder…
