Higher self-rated obsessive-compulsion in functional compared with organic dystonia
Objective: To evaluate obsessive-compulsive symptomatology in functional and organic dystonia Background: Case-control studies have reported elevated rates of obsessive-compulsion in genetic (DYT11 and DYT5) and…Restless Legs Syndrome in Functional Movement Disorders
Objective: To assess the frequency of restless legs syndrome (RLS) in patients with functional movement disorders (FMD). Background: Sensations related to RLS are varied, often…Emotion regulation and neuropsychological status in psychogenic subtypes.
Objective: To determine whether cognitive dysfunction is associated with emotion regulation strategies and psychological distress in two psychogenic movement disorder (PMD) variants: non-epileptic seizures (PNES)…Psychogenic abdominal myoclonus in Pregnancy: Case Report
Objective: Movement disorders in pregnancy represent a diagnostic challenge due to the poor physiopathological understanding in the extrapyramidal system where the afferent and efferent circuits…Neurological examination of motor Functional Neurological Disorders: an evidence-based review towards the development of consensus guidelines from the Committee on Research of the ANPA
Objective: To develop evidence-based consensus recommendations for the neurological examination of motor Functional Neurological Disorders (FND)/Conversion Disorder, weakness and abnormal movements, on behalf of the…Fatigue in Functional Motor Disorders.
Objective: To investigate fatigue severity and the nature of fatigue in functional motor disorders (FMD). Secondarily, to determine the relationship between fatigue, quality of life,…Comparing psychosocial risk factors in patients with functional movement disorders and patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures
Objective: To compare the trauma histories and psychopathological comorbidities in patients with functional (psychogenic) movements disorders (FMD) to patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES). Background:…Psychogenic movement disorder in cerebellar atrophy
Objective: Description of a patient with psychogenic movement disorder showing cerebellar atrophy in neuroimaging. Background: Psychogenic movement disorders are typically characterized by abnormal involuntary movements…Long term prognosis of functional motor disorders, a case-control follow-up study
Objective: To determine long term symptom outcome, quality of life, psychiatric co morbidity, work plus social adjustment and mortality of patients with a functional motor…Categories of psychogenic movement disorders to functional blepharospasm
Objective: 1) To investigate if the categories of psychogenic dystonia (PD) proposed by Gupta and Lang could be applied to psychogenic blepharospasm (PB); 2) To…
Abstracts from the International Congress of Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders.