HYSTERICAL PARALYSIS IN A BOY.

Motor inhibition in hysterical conversion paralysis

Brain mechanisms underlying hysterical conversion symptoms are still poorly known. Recent hypotheses suggested that activation of motor pathways might be suppressed by inhibitory signals based on particular emotional situations. To assess motor and inhibitory brain circuits during conversion paralysis, we designed a go-nogo task while a patient underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (f...

Various Forms of Hysterical or Functional Paralysis

patients suffering from these disorders. One feature of . tg book is therefore the number of fully-reported cases illustrate of the points under discussion. These cases are admira J told, and make very interesting reading. He has also atternp ^ a classification of the various forms of hysterical or functi? J paralysis, based on the supposed seat of the disturbance^ function in the nervous centr...

Babinski's clinical differentiation of organic paralysis from hysterical paralysis: effect on US neurology.

BACKGROUND The formalized neurological examination developed near the end of the 19th century, and clinicians searched for signs to differentiate weakness due to structural lesions of the central nervous system (organic paralysis) from weakness caused by hysteria. Joseph F. F. Babinski worked in the shadow of his mentor, Jean M. Charcot, until 1893, but then developed independent studies to exa...

Hysterical paraplegia.

Between 1944 and 1984 20 patients were admitted to a spinal injuries centre with a diagnosis of traumatic paraplegia. They subsequently walked out and the diagnosis was revised to hysterical paraplegia. A further 23 patients with incomplete traumatic injuries, who also walked from the centre, have been compared with them as controls. The features that enabled a diagnosis of hysterical paraplegi...

Hysterical Belch