MOVEMENT DISORDER

'List of Movement disorders'

★ 'Akinesia' (''lack of movement'')

★ 'Athetosis' (''contorted torsion or twisting'')

★ 'Ataxia'

★ 'Ballismus' (''violent involuntary rapid and irregular movements'')


Hemiballismus

Bradykinesia (''slow movement'')

★ 'Chorea' (''rapid, involuntary movement'')


Sydenham's chorea


Rheumatic chorea


Huntington's disease

★ 'Dystonia' (''sustained torsion'')


★ Dystonia muscularum


Blepharospasm


Writer's cramp


Spasmodic torticollis (''twisting of head and neck'')

★ 'Myoclonus' (''brief, involuntary twitching of a muscle or a group of muscles'')

★ 'Parkinson's disease'

★ 'Restless Legs Syndrome' RLS (WittMaack-Ekboms disease)

★ 'Spasms' (''contractions'')

★ 'Stereotypic movement disorder'

★ 'Stereotypy' (''repetition'')

★ 'Tardive dyskinesia'

★ 'Tic disorders' (''involuntary, compulsive, repetitive, stereotyped'')


Tourette's syndrome

★ 'Tremor' (''oscillations'')


★ Rest tremor (''4-8 Hz'')


★ Postural tremor


★ Kinetic tremor


Essential tremor (''6-8 Hz variable amplitude'')


★ Cerebellar tremor (''6-8 Hz variable amplitude'')


Parkinsonian tremors (''4-8 Hz variable amplitude'')


★ Physiological tremor (''10-12 Hz low amplitude'')

★ 'Wilson's disease'

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