Electrophysiological Evidence for Functional (Psychogenic) Essential Palatal Tremor

BACKGROUND: There is little published work describing the electrophysiological characteristics of essential palatal tremor, a condition now believed by many to be a functional (psychogenic) movement disorder. CASE REPORT: Here we combine electroencephalography and electromyography with time-locked v...

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Autores principales: Vial, Felipe, Akano, Emmanuel, Attaripour, Sanaz, McGurrin, Patrick, Hallett, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7394203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32775024
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/tohm.70
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author Vial, Felipe
Akano, Emmanuel
Attaripour, Sanaz
McGurrin, Patrick
Hallett, Mark
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description BACKGROUND: There is little published work describing the electrophysiological characteristics of essential palatal tremor, a condition now believed by many to be a functional (psychogenic) movement disorder. CASE REPORT: Here we combine electroencephalography and electromyography with time-locked video recordings to document two cases of essential palatal tremor in which a definitive diagnosis is achieved using these electrophysiological tools. DISCUSSION: We believe that sharing how these objective tools can be used to diagnose a functional movement disorder, as well as providing more published evidence to support the functional origin of essential palatal myoclonus, will help to diagnose this condition in the future.
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spelling pubmed-73942032020-08-07 Electrophysiological Evidence for Functional (Psychogenic) Essential Palatal Tremor Vial, Felipe Akano, Emmanuel Attaripour, Sanaz McGurrin, Patrick Hallett, Mark Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y) Case Report BACKGROUND: There is little published work describing the electrophysiological characteristics of essential palatal tremor, a condition now believed by many to be a functional (psychogenic) movement disorder. CASE REPORT: Here we combine electroencephalography and electromyography with time-locked video recordings to document two cases of essential palatal tremor in which a definitive diagnosis is achieved using these electrophysiological tools. DISCUSSION: We believe that sharing how these objective tools can be used to diagnose a functional movement disorder, as well as providing more published evidence to support the functional origin of essential palatal myoclonus, will help to diagnose this condition in the future. Ubiquity Press 2020-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7394203/ /pubmed/32775024 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/tohm.70 Text en Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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