Abstract Spasticity is a motor abnormality characterized by increased muscular tone. It results from a lesion of the corticospinal (or pyramidal) tract, which includes motor neurons in the cerebral cortex…
Abstract Historically, childhood-onset, isolated, generalized, and inherited forms of dystonia (such as DYT1 dystonia) and adult-onset, isolated, focal, mainly idiopathic dystonias have been emphasized. There is, however, growing awareness of…
Abstract Strategies in the biochemical testing for movement disorders depend on the available laboratory test panels and clinical description of the patient. Clinical signs and symptoms may already provide a…
Abstract Diagnosing inborn errors of metabolism (IEMs) and particularly those complicated by movement disorders means working in a fascinating and overlapping area between neurology, child neurology, metabolic disease, and genetics….
Abstract Movement disorders can present a diagnostic challenge, particularly those with onset at an early age as one component of a complex neurodevelopmental disorder. With advances in next-generation sequencing technologies,…
Abstract The study of abnormal movements has been an important topic in neurology since over a century ago. In fact, movement disorders are a rapidly growing subspecialty that receives contributions…
Abstract Inherited metabolic movement disorders are an important and evolving group of disorders that bridge two subspecialty areas: childhood-onset movement disorders and inborn errors of metabolism. Individually, many of these…
Chapter 21 Intensive Care of Stroke Julian Bösel Introduction Severe acute stroke, i.e. acute ischemic stroke (AIS) and intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), has been recognized to deserve management in an intensive…
Chapter 25 Neurorehabilitation Practice for Stroke Patients Jan Mehrholz Introduction It is well known that stroke is a global healthcare problem that is very common and very disabling [1]. According…
Chapter 23 Infections in Stroke Achim J. Kaasch and Harald Seifert Introduction Bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections are associated with stroke in several ways. First, at least 20% of strokes…
