Psychogenic Movement Disorders and Other Conversion Disorders

Conversion is very common but often misdiagnosed; even when diagnosed, treatment is difficult. It is critical for physicians to have the necessary knowledge to manage these patients in the most effective way. This volume gives all of the available, up-to-date information on when to think about conversion in movement disorders, how to make a diagnosis, how to use the laboratory to support a clinical diagnosis and how to develop a therapeutic plan. 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 relevant clinical angles. An accompanying CD-ROM with a video library featuring over 100 real-life examples of movement disorders will aid diagnosis. Neurologists and psychiatrists, as well as others interested in brain pathophysiology at the boundary of neurology and psychiatry, will find this a useful aid to both clinical practice and research.

Mark Hallett, MD is Chief of the Human Motor Control Section, Medical Neurology Branch, NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA. Anthony E. Lang, MD, FRCPC is Professor and Director of the Division of Neurology, and Jack Clark Chair for Parkinson's Disease Research, University of Toronto, and Director of the Movement Disorders Center, Toronto Western Hospital, ON, Canada. Joseph Jankovic, MD is Professor of Neurology, Distinguished Chair in Movement Disorders and Director of the Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Houston, TX, USA. Stanley Fahn, MD is H. Houston Merritt Professor of Neurology and Director of the Center for Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. Peter W. Halligan DSc, FBPS, FMedSci is Professor and Dean of Strategic Futures and Interdisciplinary Studies, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, UK. Valerie Voon, MD is a Clinical Research Associate in the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK. C. Robert Cloninger, MD is Wallace Renard Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Center for Psychobiology of Personality, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.