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Diagnosing psychogenic movement disorders—which criteria should be used in clinical practice?

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boxed-textShill H and Gerber P (2006) Evaluation of clinical diagnostic criteria for psychogenic movement disorders. Mov Disord 21: 1163–1168

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  1. V Voon is a lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and a research fellow at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders (NINDS),

    Valerie Voon

  2. AE Lang is Director of the Division of Neurology at the University of Toronto and Director of the Movement Disorders Unit at the Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada,

    Anthony E Lang

  3. M Hallett is Chief of the NINDS Medical Neurology Branch, and of the Human Motor Control Section, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.,

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Voon, V., Lang, A. & Hallett, M. Diagnosing psychogenic movement disorders—which criteria should be used in clinical practice?. Nat Rev Neurol 3, 134–135 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpneuro0408

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