Anterior hippocampal grey matter predicts mental health outcome in functional neurological disorders: an exploratory pilot study

J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2018 Nov;89(11):1221-1224. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2017-317305. Epub 2018 Jan 11.

David L Perez^{1

2

3}, Benjamin Williams¹, Nassim Matin¹, Julie Mello⁴, Bradford C Dickerson^{3

5}, W Curt LaFrance Jr^#^{6

7}, Matcheri S Keshavan^#⁸

¹ Department of Neurology, Functional Neurology Research Group, Cognitive Behavioral Neurology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² Department of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ Department of Physical Therapy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Department of Neurology, Frontotemporal Disorders Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁶ Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology Division, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
⁷ Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, Brown University, Alpert Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
⁸ Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: conversion disorder; functional movement disorders; hippocampus; psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; voxel-based morphometry.

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