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SUBMITTER: Morgante F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3675653 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Morgante Francesca F Edwards Mark J MJ Espay Alberto J AJ Fasano Alfonso A Mir Pablo P Martino Davide D
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 20120104 4
<h4>Background</h4>The reliability and applicability of published diagnostic criteria for psychogenic movement disorders (PMDs) have never been examined.<h4>Methods</h4>Eight movement disorder and six general neurologists rated 14 patients diagnosed with PMD and 14 patients diagnosed with organic movement disorders. Raters provided a dichotomous judgment (i.e., psychogenic or organic) upon review of video-based movement phenomenology and a category of diagnostic certainty based on the Fahn-Willi ...[more]