Movement disorder

Movement disorder
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Movement disorder Classification and external resources
ICD-9	333.9
MeSH	D009069

Movement disorders include:

Akathisia
Akinesia (lack of movement)
Athetosis (contorted torsion or twisting)
Ataxia
Ballismus (violent involuntary rapid and irregular movements)
- Hemiballismus (affecting only one side of the body)
Bradykinesia (slow movement)
Chorea (rapid, involuntary movement)
Cerebral palsy
- Sydenham's chorea
- Rheumatic chorea
- Huntington's disease
Dystonia (sustained torsion)
- Dystonia muscularum
- Blepharospasm
- Writer's cramp
- Spasmodic torticollis (twisting of head and neck)
Geniospasm (episodic involuntary up and down movements of the chin and lower lip)
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

Treatment

Treatment depends upon the underlying disorder.^[1]

References

^ "MedlinePlus: Movement Disorders".

v • d • e Pathology of the nervous system, primarily CNS (G00-G47, 320-349)

Inflammatory diseases of the CNS	Meningitis (Arachnoiditis) - Encephalitis - Myelitis - Encephalomyelitis (Acute disseminated) - Tropical spastic paraparesis - Cavernous sinus thrombosis

Systemic atrophies primarily affecting the CNS	Huntington's disease - Spinocerebellar ataxia (Friedreich's ataxia, Ataxia telangiectasia, Hereditary spastic paraplegia) - Spinal muscular atrophy: Werdnig-Hoffman - Kugelberg-Welander - Fazio-Londe - MND (ALS, PMA, PBP, PP, PLS)

Extrapyramidal and movement disorders	Parkinson's disease - Neuroleptic malignant syndrome - Postencephalitic parkinsonism - Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration - Progressive supranuclear palsy - Striatonigral degeneration - Dystonia/Dyskinesia (Spasmodic torticollis, Meige's, Blepharospasm) - Essential tremor - Myoclonus - Lafora - Chorea (Choreoathetosis) - Restless legs - Stiff person

Other degenerative/ demyelinating diseases	dementia: Alzheimer's - Pick's - Dementia with Lewy bodies - Frontotemporal lobar degeneration mitochondrial disease: Leigh's demyelinating: Multiple sclerosis - Devic's - Central pontine myelinolysis - Transverse myelitis - Marchiafava-Bignami disease - CAMFAK syndrome - Alpers'

Seizure/epilepsy	Focal: Simple partial - Complex partial - Temporal lobe epilepsy - Frontal lobe epilepsy - Jacksonian seizure Generalised: Tonic-clonic - Absence seizure - Atonic seizure - Benign familial neonatal - Lennox-Gastaut - West - Todd's paresis Status epilepticus: Epilepsia partialis continua - Complex partial status epilepticus Myoclonic epilepsy: Progressive myoclonic epilepsy, Unverricht-Lundborg disease - Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

Headache	Migraine (Familial hemiplegic) - Cluster - Vascular - Tension

Vascular	Transient ischemic attack (Amaurosis fugax, Transient global amnesia) Cerebrovascular disease (MCA, ACA, PCA, Foville's, Millard-Gubler, Lateral medullary, Weber's, Lacunar stroke)

Sleep disorders	Insomnia - Hypersomnia - Sleep apnea (Obstructive, Ondine's curse) - Narcolepsy - Cataplexy - Kleine-Levin - Circadian rhythm sleep - Delayed sleep phase - Advanced sleep phase

Intracranial hypertension	Hydrocephalus (Normal pressure) - Idiopathic intracranial hypertension

Other encephalopathy	Brain herniation - Cerebral edema - Reye's

Other spinal cord disease	Syringomyelia - Syringobulbia - Morvan's syndrome - Spinal cord compression

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