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Dystonia – a Potential Psychiatric Pitfall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

D. G. Cunningham Owens
D. G. Cunningham Owens*
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Northwick Park Hospital and Clinical Research Centre, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3UJ
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Abstract

The manifold presentations of dystonia have been acknowledged as a spectrum of illness. Dystonia is primarily idiopathic or drug-induced; purely psychogenic causes would seem to be rare, although such an aetiology is commonly assumed. Response to medication in idiopathic cases is unpredictable, although anticholinergic medication and behavioural programmes are being evaluated.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 156 , Issue 5 , May 1990 , pp. 620 - 634
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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