Dissociative Motor Disorder

Conversion disorders are more prevalent in childhood and adolescence, especially in females. They are usually associated with stressors and symptoms usually reflect a means to avoid the stressor, or also with a primary and secondary gain. This case report involves a similar situation where a young g...

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Autores principales: Jith, Arya, Narayanan, Dinesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5330002/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28250569
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.198952
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description Conversion disorders are more prevalent in childhood and adolescence, especially in females. They are usually associated with stressors and symptoms usually reflect a means to avoid the stressor, or also with a primary and secondary gain. This case report involves a similar situation where a young girl was treated successfully with diazepam, therapeutic nerve conduction study, and behavioral psychotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-53300022017-03-01 Dissociative Motor Disorder Jith, Arya Narayanan, Dinesh Indian J Psychol Med Case Report Conversion disorders are more prevalent in childhood and adolescence, especially in females. They are usually associated with stressors and symptoms usually reflect a means to avoid the stressor, or also with a primary and secondary gain. This case report involves a similar situation where a young girl was treated successfully with diazepam, therapeutic nerve conduction study, and behavioral psychotherapy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5330002/ /pubmed/28250569 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.198952 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5330002/
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