Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: TMS and Attentional Bias in Functional Motor Disorder
Brief Summary:
Functional motor disorders, also called motor conversion disorder, are common reasons for attendance at neurology outpatient clinics. Patients with functional motor disorders are more common than patients with multiple sclerosis and have similar levels of disability but more psychological morbidity.
There is limited evidence for effective treatments in functional motor disorders. A small number of studies of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a painless method of cortical stimulation, have reported improvement in functional weakness after this treatment including in patients with symptoms of several years duration. The Investigators intend to trial TMS in a group of 40 patients with functional motor disorder, randomising patients to immediate or delayed treatment and therefore comparing a single session of TMS with routine clinical care. The Investigators will also ask patients to undergo tests of attentional focus in a cognitive neuroscience laboratory - these experiments will be analysed separately from TMS trial data.