Pain processing in functional and idiopathic dystonia: An exploratory study.

Francesca MorganteAngela MatinellaElisa AndrenelliLucia RicciardiCosimo AllegraCarmen TerranovaPaolo GirlandaMichele Tinazzi

Published in: Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society (2018)

Patients with functional dystonia have a dissociation between the sensory-discriminative and cognitive-emotional components of pain, as revealed by normal pain thresholds and increased pain tolerance. Abnormal connectivity between the motor and limbic systems might account for abnormal pain processing in functional dystonia. © 2018 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.

Keyphrases

chronic pain
pain management
neuropathic pain
early onset
deep brain stimulation
postoperative pain