Isaiah Kletenik, Samantha K Holden, Stefan H Sillau, Nicola O'Connell, Lindsey MacGillivray, Joel Mack, Beatrix Haddock, M Ashworth Dirac, Anthony S David, Timothy R Nicholson, Sanaz N Attaripour Isfahani, Carine W Maurer, Sarah C Lidstone, Mark Hallett, Kathrin LaFaver, Brian D Berman, Jon Stone
BACKGROUND: To determine gender differences in rates of sexual and physical abuse in functional movement disorders compared to controls and evaluate if the gender disparity of functional movement disorders is associated with abuse history. METHODS: We performed a retrospective case-control study of self-reported trauma data from 696 patients (512 women) with functional movement disorders from six clinical sites compared to 141 controls (98 women) and population data...
June 2022: Journal of Neurology