The term may be used synonymously with Enteric neuropathy if a neurological cause is suspected.
Many scientists also believe that this is a conversion disorder, in which patients exhibit symptoms without any neurological cause.
I've run all the standard brain imaging programs and can find no known neurological cause for it.
The best solution may deal with both neurological and emotional causes.
Frontotemporal dementia is also a common neurological cause of repetitive behaviors and stereotypies.
If for instance it has an underlying neurological cause, it will be treated rather differently from tissue damage.
It may have a neurological, psychological or psychosomatic cause.
The diagnosis should usually be made by a consultant neurologist so that other neurological causes can be excluded.
Biological and neurological causes need to be observed just as much as psychosocial factors.
This treatment deals with the muscular manifestations of hemiballismus as opposed to the neurological causes.