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Clinical characteristics of 49 patients with psychogenic movement disorders in a tertiary clinic in Turkey

✍ Scribed by Sibel Ertan; Derya Uluduz; Sibel Özekmekçi; Günes Kiziltan; Turan Ertan; Cengiz Yalçinkaya; Çigdem Özkara

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
457 KB
Volume
24
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-3185

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Abstract

Patients admitted to movement disorders outpatient unit at a university hospital between January 2002 and June 2007 were screened for psychogenic movement disorders (PMDs). Out of 1,743 patients, 49 patients (2.8%), including four children, were diagnosed to have PMDs. Women to men ratio was 34/15. The mean age and the age‐at‐onset were 41 ± 17 years and 36 ± 15 years in the adult group, and 10 ± 2 and 9 ± 2 years in children. Among the whole group, 44% had tremor, 24% dystonia, 12% pure gait disorders, 8% parkinsonism, 6% chorea‐ballism, and 4% tic disorder. PMD developed acutely in 85% of patients, and distractibility was observed in 83%. Of the patients, 81% met the criteria for clinically established PMD, whereas 16% for documented and 2% for probable PMD. Although our data was obtained from a different culture, our results showed that hospital‐based frequency and phenomenological features between our PMD group and previously reported ones are similar. © 2009 Movement Disorder Society

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