Psychogenic movement disorders are characterized by unwanted movements, such as spasms, shaking or jerks involving any part of the face, neck, trunk or limbs. In addition some patients may have ...

However, according to experts, growing stress and psychological factors have increased the number of psychogenic cases too.

Not quite sure what that means? Well, let’s think about it in terms of Murray’s Theory of Psychogenic Needs. Renowned American psychologist Henry Murray is most poignantly remembered for his theory ...

Psychogenic Erectile Dysfunction (PED) is a growing matter of concern among youngsters that is frequently overlooked. The ...

On knowing when it’s time to get out of the house. When I was 22 years old, I went into a smoke-filled house and persuaded a ...

Let me tell you a medical story; you decide what you make of it. A person has a routine medical experience, the kind that all ...

Patients with psychogenic movement disorders (PMDs) present with tremor, fixed postures of limbs (typically an inverted ankle or clenched fist; Figure 1), jerks, or other combinations of abnormal ...

Staff at private mental health hospital near Weston-super-Mare missed chances to prevent Lily Lucas’s death, jury finds ...

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 ...

Background: Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are commonly encountered problem in neurological practice and usually are accompanied by other psychiatric comorbidities. Despite its ...

The beneficial effect’s negative cousin is garnering more attention as Australian researchers say ‘social contagion’ is ...