1 Charcot and psychogenic movement disorders 3
2 Freud and psychogenic movement disorders 14
3 Military and mass hysteria 20
4 The history of psychogenic movement disorders 24
5 General overview of psychogenic movement disorders : epidemiology, diagnosis, and prognosis 35
6 Psychogenic tremor and shaking 42
7 The phenomenology of Startle, Latah, and related conditions 48
8 Psychogenic dystonia and reflex sympathetic dystrophy 53
9 Psychogenic Parkinsonism 62
10 Psychogenic gait : an example of deceptive signaling 69
11 Paroxysmal psychogenic movement disorders 76
12 Treatment and outcome of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures 82
13 Functional paralysis and sensory disturbance 88
14 An overview of the psychiatric approach to conversion disorder 115
15 The role of personality in psychogenic movement disorders 122
16 Dissociation and conversion in psychogenic illness 131
17 Anxiety disorders and abnormal movements : a darkly interface 144
18 Depression 148
19 Malingering/Munchausen : factitious and somatoform disorders in neurology and clinical medicine 154
20 Treatment of hypochondriasis and psychogenic movement disorders : focus on cognitive-behavior therapy 163
21 Somatization disorder : Briquet's hysteria 180
22 Voluntary and involuntary movements in humans 189
23 The neurophysiology of voluntary movement in nonhuman primates : accumulator models of decision and action in relation to psychogenic movement disorders 196
24 Consciousness 212
25 The cognitive executive is implicated in the maintenance of psychogenic movement disorders 222
26 Neuroimaging of hysteria 230
27 Hypnosis and psychogenic movement disorders 241
28 The sodium amytal and benzodiazepine interview and its possible application in psychogenic movement disorders 249
29 The role of anesthesia in the diagnosis and treatment of psychogenic movement disorders 256
30 Clinical neurophysiology of myoclonus 262
31 The diagnosis and physiology of psychogenic tremor 265
32 Natural history of psychogenic movement disorders 274
33 Treatment of conversion disorder 289
34 Treatment of psychogenic movement disorder : psychotropic medications 302
35 Rehabilitation in patients with psychogenic movement disorders 311
36 Psychogenic injuries and the law 319
37 Therapeutic approaches to psychogenic movement disorders 323
This groundbreaking volume is the first text devoted to psychogenic
movement disorders. Co-published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and
the American Academy of Neurology, the book contains the highlights
of an international, multidisciplinary conference on these disorders
and features contributions from leading neurologists, psychiatrists,
psychologists, physiatrists, and basic scientists.
Major sections discuss the phenomenology of psychogenic movement
disorders from both the neurologist's and the psychiatrist's
viewpoint. Subsequent sections examine recent findings on
pathophysiology and describe current diagnostic techniques and
therapies. Also included are abstracts of 16 seminal free
communications presented at the conference.