Movement disorder

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• Akathisia
  Akathisia
  
  Akathisia, or acathisia, is a syndrome characterized by unpleasant sensations of "inner" restlessness that manifests itself with an inability to sit still or remain motionless, hence its origin in Ancient Greek a , [without, not] + ????s?? , [sitting]....
  
• Akinesia
  Akinesia
  
  Akinesia is the inability to initiate movement due to difficulty selecting and/or activating motor program in the central nervous system. Common in severe cases of Parkinson's disease, akinesia is a result of severely diminished dopamine cell activity in the direct pathway of movement....
   (lack of movement)
• Athetosis
  Athetosis
  
  Athetosis is a continuous stream of slow, sinuous, writhing movements, typically of the hands and Foot. Movements typical to athetosis are sometimes called athetoid movements....
   (contorted torsion or twisting)
• Ataxia
  Ataxia
  
  Ataxia is a neurology sign and symptom consisting of gross lack of coordination of muscle movements. Ataxia is a non-specific clinical manifestation implying dysfunction of parts of the nervous system that coordinate movement, such as the cerebellum....
  
• Ballismus (violent involuntary rapid and irregular movements)
• Hemiballismus
  Hemiballismus
  
  Hemiballismus is a very rare movement disorder. It is five hundred times rarer than Parkinson?s disease. Its effects can sometimes be severe enough to prevent patients from being able to perform daily functions....
   (affecting only one side of the body)
• Bradykinesia
  Bradykinesia
  
  In medicine , bradykinesia denotes "slow movement" . It is a feature of a number of diseases, most notably Parkinson's disease and other disorders of the basal ganglia....
   (slow movement)
• Cerebral palsy
  Cerebral palsy
  
  Cerebral palsy is an umbrella term encompassing a group of non-progressive illness, non-Infectious diseases conditions that cause physical disability in Human development ....
  
• Chorea
  Chorea (disease)
  
  Chorea sancti viti is an abnormal involuntary movement disorder, one of a group of neurological disorders called dyskinesias. The term chorea is derived from a Greek word ???e?a , as the quick movements of the feet or hands are vaguely comparable to dancing or piano playing....
   (rapid, involuntary movement)
• Sydenham's chorea
  Sydenham's chorea
  
  Sydenham's chorea is a disease characterized by rapid, uncoordinated jerking movements affecting primarily the face, feet and hands. SC results from childhood infection with Group A beta-hemolytic Streptococci and is reported to occur in 20-30% of patients with rheumatic fever ....
  
• Rheumatic chorea
• Huntington's disease
  Huntington's disease
  
  Huntington's disease, also called Huntington's Chorea , chorea major, or HD, is a genetics Neurodegenerative disease characterized after onset by uncoordinated, jerky body movements and a decline in some mental abilities....
  
• Dystonia
  Dystonia
  
  Dystonia is a neurology movement disorder in which sustained muscle contractions cause twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures. The disorder may be Heredity or caused by other factors such as Birth trauma or other physical trauma, infection, poisoning or reaction to Medication....
   (sustained torsion)
• Dystonia muscularum
• Blepharospasm
  Blepharospasm
  
  A blepharospasm , is any abnormal tic or twitch of the eyelid.It normally refers to benign essential blepharospasm, a focal dystonia - a neurological movement disorder involving involuntary and sustained muscle contractions of the muscles around the eyes....
  
• Writer's cramp
  Writer's cramp
  
  Writer's cramp, also called mogigraphia and scrivener's palsy, causes a cramp or spasm affecting certain muscles of the hand and/or fingers....
  
• Spasmodic torticollis
  Spasmodic torticollis
  
  Spasmodic torticollis is a chronic neurological movement disorder causing the neck to involuntarily turn to the left, right, upwards, and/or downwards....
   (twisting of head and neck)
• Geniospasm
  Geniospasm
  
  Geniospasm is movement disorder of the mentalis muscle.It is a benign but socially excluding genetic disorder linked to chromosome 9q13-q21 where there are episodic involuntary up and down movements of the chin and lower lip....
   (episodic involuntary up and down movements of the chin and lower lip)
• Myoclonus
  Myoclonus
  
  Myoclonus is brief, involuntary twitching of a muscle or a group of muscles. It describes a medical sign and, generally, is not a diagnosis of a disease....
   (brief, involuntary twitching of a muscle or a group of muscles)
• Parkinson's disease
  Parkinson's disease
  
  Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that often impairs the sufferer's motor skills and speech, as well as other functions....
  
• Restless Legs Syndrome
  Restless legs syndrome
  
  Restless legs syndrome is a condition that is characterized by an irresistible urge to move one's body to stop uncomfortable or odd sensations....
   RLS (WittMaack-Ekboms disease)
• Spasms (contractions)
• Stereotypic movement disorder
  Stereotypic movement disorder
  
  Stereotypic movement disorder is a disorder of childhood involving repetitive, nonfunctional motor behavior , that markedly interferes with normal activities or results in bodily injury, and persists for four weeks or longer....
  
• Stereotypy
  Stereotypy
  
  A stereotypy is a repetitive or ritualistic movement, posture, or utterance, found in patients with mental retardation, autism spectrum disorders, tardive dyskinesia and stereotypic movement disorder....
   (repetition)
• Tardive dyskinesia
  Tardive dyskinesia
  
  Tardive dyskinesia is a variety of Dyskinesia manifesting as a side effect of long-term or high-dose use of dopamine antagonists, usually antipsychotics....
  
• Tic disorder
  Tic disorder
  
  Tic disorders are defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders based on type and duration of tics . Tic disorders are defined similarly by the World Health Organization ....
  s (involuntary, compulsive, repetitive, stereotyped)
• Tourette's syndrome
  Tourette syndrome
  
  Tourette syndrome is an heredity Neuropsychiatry disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by the presence of multiple physical tics and at least one vocal tic; these tics characteristically wax and wane....
  
• Tremor
  Tremor
  
  Tremor is an unintentional, somewhat rhythmic, muscle movement involving to-and-fro movements of one or more body parts. It is the most common of all involuntary movements and can affect the hands, arms, head, face, vocal cords, trunk, and legs....
   (oscillation
  Oscillation
  
  Oscillation is the repetitive variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value or between two or more different states. Familiar examples include a swinging pendulum and Alternating current power....
  s)
• Rest tremor (4-8 Hz
  Hertz
  
  The hertz is a measure of frequency per unit of time, or the number of list of cycles per second. It is the SI base unit of frequency in the International System of Units , and is used worldwide in both general-purpose and scientific contexts....
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• Postural tremor
• Kinetic tremor
• Essential tremor
  Essential tremor
  
  Essential tremor is a progressive neurological disorder whose most recognizable feature is a tremor of the arms that is apparent during voluntary movements such as eating and writing....
   (6-8 Hz variable amplitude
  Amplitude
  
  Amplitude is the magnitude of change in the oscillating variable, with each oscillation, within an oscillating system. For instance, sound waves are oscillations in atmospheric pressure and their amplitudes are proportional to the change in pressure during one oscillation....
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• Cerebellar tremor (6-8 Hz variable amplitude)
• Parkinsonian tremors (4-8 Hz variable amplitude)
• Physiological tremor (10-12 Hz low amplitude)
• Wilson's disease
  Wilson's disease
  
  Wilson's disease or hepatolenticular degeneration is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder in which copper accumulates in biological tissue; this manifests as neurology or psychiatry symptoms and liver disease....
  

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