The role of attention in functional movement disorders
Objective: Identify where the attentional focus naturally lies in functional movement disorders and evaluate which abnormal attentional foci contribute to symptom generation. The ultimate aim…Altered intrinsic power spectral density of the precuneus in patients with hyperkinetic functional movement disorders
Objective: In order to better understand the underlying mechanisms of functional movement disorders (FMD), we set out to explore changes in functional connectivity and intrinsic…The role of stress-related genes and childhood trauma in the clinical phenotype of Functional Movement Disorders
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at the level of stress-related genes, childhood trauma, and…Defining biomarkers to discriminate between organic and functional dystonia
Objective: Establish methodologies, fast and easy to translate to clinics, that help discriminate between organic and functional dystonia. Background: Functional dystonias are challenging diagnoses that…Can cerebellar dysfunction help differentiate idiopathic from functional cervical dystonia?
Objective: This study investigated cerebellar function in patients with primary cervical dystonia (CD) and patients with presumed functional dystonia, with the intention to both clarify…Explicit movement control in functional movement disorders is characterized by reduced lateralized beta desynchronisation
Objective: To test whether beta power remains abnormally raised during motor preparation in functional movement disorders (FMD) patients. Background: Excessive attention towards movement control is…Volumetric analysis of limbic structures in patients with functional movement disorders
Objective: To evaluate amygdala and hippocampal volume in patients with functional movement disorders (FMD). Background: Functional neuroimaging studies in patients with FMD have demonstrated abnormalities…Psychiatric profile in functional (psychogenic) jerky movement disorders
Objective: To systematically assess the psychiatric profile in functional jerky movement disorders. Background: Less and less emphasis is currently placed on psychopathology in functional neurologic…Deficits in sensorimotor networks in functional movement disorders: A graph-theory based network analysis
Objective: To investigate the organization of functional neural networks in patients with functional (psychogenic) movement disorders (FMD). Background: Although several task-based neuroimaging studies have pointed…Attention to action: Common to both conversion (psychogenic) and Parkinsonian (neurogenic) motor speech disorders
Objective: To review and present a common abnormality --- attention to action--- underlying Parkinsonian and conversion speech disorders. Background: Conversion speech disorders are characterized by…
Abstracts from the International Congress of Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders.