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Encyclopedia > 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 chorea
  • Dystonia (sustained torsion)
    • Dystonia muscularum
    • Blepharospasm
    • Writer's cramp
    • Spasmodic torticollis (twisting of head and neck)
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Spasms (contractions)
  • 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 tremor (4-8 Hz variable amplitude)
    • Physiological tremor (10-12 Hz low amplitude)
  • Wilson's disease

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MedlinePlus: Movement Disorders (336 words)
The primary NIH organization for research on Movement Disorders is the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Dyskinesia is a common symptom of many movement disorders.
Many movement disorders are inherited, which means they run in families.
Movement disorders - Definition, Description (0 words)
Movement disorders describe a variety of abnormal movements of the body that have a neurological basis.
Movement disorders are sometimes referred to by medical professionals as extrapyramidal diseases because this class of disorders is distinct from the disorders caused by disorders of the pyramidal region of the brain.
Researchers have determined that movement disorders are caused by diseases in various parts of the brain, including the substantia nigra, the subthalamic nucleus, the globus pallidus, the striatum, and the basal ganglia.
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