Misdirected attentional focus in functional tremor.

ABSTRACT: A characteristic and intriguing feature of functional neurological disorder is that symptoms typically manifest with attention and improve or disappear with distraction. Attentional phenomena are therefore likely to be important in functional neurological disorder, but exactly how this manifests is unknown. The aim of the study was to establish whether in functional tremor the attentional focus is misdirected, and whether this misdirection is detrimental to the movement, or rather reflects a beneficial compensatory strategy. Patients with a functional action tremor, between the ages of 21-75, were compared to two age and gender matched control groups: healthy control participants and patients with an organic action tremor. The groups included between 17 and 28 participants. First, we compa

SUBMITTER: Huys AML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8677517 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature