psychogenic movement disorders
Findings
No curated finding names psychogenic movement disorders yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Psychogenic movement disorders (PMD) are movement disorders that cannot be attributed to any known structural or neurochemical diseases, but represent the manifestation of an underlying psychiatric illness or malingering. Most cases of PMD fall in the psychiatric diagnostic category of conversion disorders of the motor subtype.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0019114), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Features
3 features
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, annotations 2026-09-02.
- Abnormality of movementHPOHP:0100022
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- Abnormal speech patternHPOHP:0002167
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Gait disturbanceHPOHP:0001288
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
Where it sits
- A kind of
Other names
1 name
Resolves to: psychogenic movement disorders
- Also called
- psychogenic dystonia