Patients with psychogenic movement disorders (PMDs) present with tremor, fixed postures of limbs (typically an inverted ankle or clenched fist; Figure 1), jerks, or other combinations of abnormal ...

Functional movement disorders (FMD), previously referred to as “psychogenic” movement disorders, are characterized by abnormal movements, postures or spasms, such as shaking (irregular tremor) or ...

Written by experts in neurology, psychiatry, psychology, neuroimaging, neurophysiology and genetics, this book covers psychogenic movement disorders and other conversion disorders from all of the most ...

From the Medical Clinic of the Boston Dispensary, service of Dr. J. H. Pratt, and the Division of Research. Falcon-Lesses — Assistant in Medicine, Boston Dispensary and Beth Israel Hospital ...

The research around stress and fevers—specifically a type of fever called "psychogenic fever"—is mixed. A psychogenic fever ...

Mass hysteria – otherwise known as epidemic hysteria, psychogenic epidemic, or mass psychogenic illness – is characterized by the spread of symptoms through a population, where there is no infectious ...