Objective: Objective: The aim of this study is to compare the BSI in patients with functional movement disorders and healthy volunteers.

Background: Background: Functional movement disorder includes a group of movement disorders that cannot be explained by organic reasons. There are several clues, including sudden onset, incongruous symptoms, distractibility, suggestibility and lack of response to otherwise effective pharmacological therapies. Body image scale (BIS) is a scale consisting of forty questions and used for body perception.

Method: Methods: Our study was designed prospectively. Movement disorder type of the patients, whose organic disorders were excluded, were recorded. Demographic data and the BIS were filled in by healthy volunteers and patients.

Results: Results: Fifty-one patients and gender-age matched forty-two healthy volunteers were included in the study. The mean age of the patients was 28,8 (18-54) and the mean age of healthy volunteers was 30,2 (19-57). The female-male ratio was 64,7% in patients and 66,6% in healthy volunteers. The most common type of functional movement disorder was tremor (34%). In patients BIS score was 112,3 and it was 141,7 in healthy volunteers. There was no significant difference in BIS score between functional movement disorders subtypes.

Conclusion: Conclusion: Diagnosis and treatment of functional movement disorders involve some difficulties. Psychiatric evaluation of these patients must be done. In our study, it was determined that body image was impaired regardless of the movement disorder phenomenology. Correction of body image with appropriate pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy will contribute to the treatment of movement disorder.

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