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- Title
Discrepancy between Dysmetric Centrifugal Movements and Normometric Centripetal Movements in Psychogenic Ataxia.
- Authors
Manto, Mario-Ubaldo
- Abstract
A method to unravel an aberrant motor behaviour in psychogenic ataxia is reported. The kinematic features of fast reaching movements in the vertical plane are described in a patient presenting a psychogenic ataxia. The procedure compared centrifugal and centripetal movements. Path ratios were computed for each phase, as well as the ratios of the paths for centrifugal and centripetal directions. Trajectories of centrifugal phases were erratic but centripetal movements were very regular, whereas both centripetal and centrifugal movements were irregular in patients presenting an organic cerebellar syndrome. A similar incongruity between movements in opposite directions is also shown for a second patient exhibiting psychogenic ataxia. Discrepancies between the centrifugal phase and the centripetal phase of multi-joint reaching movements support the diagnosis of a psychogenic movement disorder.Copyright © 2001 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Subjects
ATAXIA; KINEMATICS; CENTRIPETAL force; MOTOR ability; PLACEBOS
- Publication
European Neurology, 2001, Vol 45, Issue 4, p261
- ISSN
0014-3022
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000052140