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Good follow up data were available for 64 subjects(88%).Only three subjects had new organic neurological disorders at follow up that fully or partly explained their previous symptoms.44/59(75%)patients,the psychiatric diagnosis coincided with their unexplained motor symptoms.31/ 59(45%)patients had a personality disorder.Three subjects had developed new psychiatric illnesses at follow up,but in only one did the diagnosis account for the previous motor symptoms.Resolution of physical symptoms was associated with short length of symptoms,comorbid psychiatric disorder,and a change in marital status during follow up.Unlike Slater's study of 1965,a low incidence of physical or psychiatric diagnoses which explained these patients'symptoms or disability was found.However,a high level of psychiatric comorbidity existed. |
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