INTRODUCTION NEUROPSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE A variety of neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS), including depression, anxiety, psychotic symptoms, apathy, and impulse-control disorders (ICDs), occur in up to 60% of patients with…
Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurologic disorder manifested by motor, vocal, or phonic tics that, in most cases, start in childhood and are often accompanied by obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity…
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Secondary causes of parkinsonism continue to influence our thinking on the possible etiology of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and, as a consequence, assume an importance far greater than their incidence in…
Childhood movement disorders are both similar and distinct from movement disorders in adulthood. While the two overlap in their definitions of specific movements, this chapter will serve to highlight the…
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INTRODUCTION Gait, the art and manner of walking, is defined as a learned complex motor skill that facilitates locomotion. Humans have used the bipedal form of locomotion for more than…
SUMMARY Syndromes with neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA) are a group of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by abnormalities in brain iron metabolism with excess iron accumulation in the globus pallidus…
INTRODUCTION There are many case reports and case series describing the development of a movement disorder (MD) following peripheral trauma (see for a review (1)). These so-called peripherally induced MDs…
