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MOVEMENT DISORDERS
卷 26, 期 14, 页码 2509-2515出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23922
关键词
psychogenic tremor; tremor analysis; electrophysiology; diagnostic criteria
资金
- MRC [MC_G1000735] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MC_G1000735] Funding Source: Medline
- Wellcome Trust [089698] Funding Source: Medline
- Medical Research Council [MC_G1000735] Funding Source: researchfish
A confident clinical diagnosis of psychogenic tremor is often possible, but, in some cases, a laboratory-supported level of certainty would aid in early positive diagnosis. Various electrophysiological tests have been suggested to identify patients with psychogenic tremor, but their diagnostic reliability has never been assessed head to head nor compared to forms of organic tremor other than essential tremor or PD. We compared baseline tremor characteristics (e.g., frequency and amplitude) as well as electrophysiological tests previously reported to distinguish psychogenic and organic tremor in a cohort of 13 patients with psychogenic tremor and 25 patients with organic tremor, the latter including PD, essential-, dystonic-, and neuropathic tremors. We assessed between-group differences and calculated sensitivity and specificity for each test. A number of tests, including entrainment or frequency changes with tapping, pause of tremor during contralateral ballistic movements, increase in tremor amplitude with loading, presence of coherence, and tonic coactivation at tremor onset, revealed significant differences on a group level, but there was no single test with adequate sensitivity and specificity for separating the groups (33%77% and 84%100%, respectively). However, a combination of electrophysiological tests was able to distinguish psychogenic and organic tremor with excellent sensitivity and specificity. A laboratory-supported level of diagnostic certainty in psychogenic tremor is likely to require a battery of electrophysiological tests to provide sufficient specificity and sensitivity. Our data suggest such a battery that, if supported in a prospective study, may form the basis of laboratory-supported criteria for the diagnosis of psychogenic tremor. (c) 2011 Movement Disorder Society
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