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. 1990;3(2):117-31.
doi: 10.3233/BEN-1990-3206.

Body concept, disability, and depression in patients with spasmodic torticollis

M Jahanshahi  1 , C D Marsden  1
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Body concept, disability, and depression in patients with spasmodic torticollis

M Jahanshahi et al. Behav Neurol. 1990.

Abstract

Eighty-five patients with idiopathic spasmodic torticollis were compared with an equally chronic group of 49 cervical spondylosis sufferers in terms of body concept, depression, and disability. The torticollis patients were significantly more depressed and disabled and had a more negative body concept. Depression had different determinants in the two groups. Extent of disfigurement was a major predictor of depression in torticollis. Neuroticism accounted for the greatest proportion of the variance of depression in cervical spondylosis.

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