Reduction of Autonomic Regulation in Children and Adolescents With Conversion Disorders
@article{Kozlowska2015ReductionOA,
title={Reduction of Autonomic Regulation in Children and Adolescents With Conversion Disorders},
author={Kasia Kozlowska and Donna M. Palmer and Kerri J. Brown and Loyola M Mclean and Stephen Scher and Richard Gevirtz and Catherine Chudleigh and Leanne M. Williams},
journal={Psychosomatic Medicine},
year={2015},
volume={77},
pages={356–370},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:24987397}
}High autonomic arousal may be a precondition for generating conversion symptoms, and aberrant patterns of functional connectivity between motor areas and central arousal systems may be responsible for generating motor conversion symptoms.
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