Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry
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To detect anatomical differences in areas related to motor processing between patients with motor conversion disorder (CD) and controls. ⋯ Cortical thickness increases in premotor cortical areas of patients with hemiparetic CD provide evidence for altered brain structure in a condition with presumed normal brain anatomy. These may either represent premorbid vulnerability or a plasticity phenomenon related to the disease with the trends towards correlations with clinical variables supporting the latter.