http://anjasmith.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/references-for-psychogenic-movement-disorders/ the adventures of a student nurse Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:10:00 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://anjasmith.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/references-for-psychogenic-movement-disorders/#comment-8 Psychogenic Movement Disorders « Anamnesis Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:23:06 +0000 http://anjasmith.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/references-for-psychogenic-movement-disorders/#comment-8 [...] However, I later did the same search in Pubmed, and I found some very interesting articles, that I thought very useful: ‘Psychogenic movement disorders’ and ‘Neurological syndromes in factitious disorder’. The former was actually a literature review, and the latter a quantitative study of the frequency of the occurrence of factitious disorder in one particular hospital’s department of neurology (Freie Universität Berlin). Now, I am no expert (yet) in research articles, so I would not recommend taking every word and every finding I read as the absolute truth, but I think that these articles gave me a clearer understanding of how the disorder works, and how to recognize it. References for these articles and further definitions can be found here. [...] [...] However, I later did the same search in Pubmed, and I found some very interesting articles, that I thought very useful: ‘Psychogenic movement disorders’ and ‘Neurological syndromes in factitious disorder’. The former was actually a literature review, and the latter a quantitative study of the frequency of the occurrence of factitious disorder in one particular hospital’s department of neurology (Freie Universität Berlin). Now, I am no expert (yet) in research articles, so I would not recommend taking every word and every finding I read as the absolute truth, but I think that these articles gave me a clearer understanding of how the disorder works, and how to recognize it. References for these articles and further definitions can be found here. [...]

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