Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine  2013;21(2):99-105

Movement Disorders that Psychiatrists Should Know.

Jin Sook CHEON

Keywords

Psychiatry; Movement disorder; Etiology; Differential diagnosis

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

Korean

Abstract

The movement disorders in psychiatry have been neglected, though it is an important psychiatric dimension to exert unfavorable influence on patients'quality of life. The etiologies of movement disorders in psychiatry can be classified as primary neurological disorders, psychiatric comorbidities of neurological disorders, manifestations of primary psychiatric disorders, drug-induced movement disorders and psychogenic movement disorders. For the rapid and proper treatment for movement symptoms and signs easily observed from psychiatric patients, psychiatrists' ability toward precise disgnosis and differential diagnosis of movement disorders should be preceded.