PURPOSE OF REVIEW This review focuses on recent studies assessing clinical features and laboratory findings that may help diagnose psychogenic movement disorders, and the ongoing controversy about the relationship of these disorders with preceding peripheral injury. RECENT FINDINGS 'Organic' movement disorders may still be misdiagnosed as psychogenic. Probably more commonly, however, psychoge...

Autistic disorder, an extremely disabling syndrome with onset in early childhood, is associated with multiple comorbid conditions. Although autistic disorder is heterogeneous in its manifestations, there is a subgroup of individuals with autistic disorder who display movements that appear to be unique for the disorders. Hand flapping and a variety of movements termed stereotypies may be pathogn...

BACKGROUND Physicians can come across patients who are exposed to certain prescription drugs or toxins that can result in adverse effects and complications which have high rates of morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVE To summarise the key clinical features and management of the common movement disorder toxidromes relevant to physicians (with an interest in neurology). METHODS We searched PUBM...

Movement interference occurs when concurrently observing and executing incompatible actions and is believed to be due to co-activation of conflicting populations of mirror neurons. It has also been suggested that mirror neurons contribute towards the imitation of observed actions. However, the exact neural substrate of imitation may depend on task demands: a processing route for goal-directed m...

According to current proposals for ICD-11, stereotyped movement disorder will be classified in the grouping of neurodevelopmental disorders, with a qualifier to indicate whether self-injury is present, similar to the classification of stereotypic movement disorder in DSM-5. At the same time, the WHO ICD-11 Working Group on the Classification of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders has pro...

Neuroacanthocytosis is a genetic neurodegenerative disorder with syndromes of variable inheritance. These hyperkinetic movement disorders are reported to be very rare. It is associated with choreiform movements, orofacial and lingual dyskinesias and acanthocytes on peripheral smear and normolipoproteinemia. Here we present a similar case.

Sleep bruxism (SB) with concomitant tooth grinding was recently reclassified as a sleeprelated oromotor movement disorder falling within sleep medicine. Over several decades, however, the clinical relevance and pathophysiology of SB has been discussed by dental professionals rather than by sleep physicians, because SB has been associated with orodental consequences such as tooth wear, masticato...

Die medizinische Ausbildung ist in Bewegung. Der Bundesrat und seine Gremien beraten über die Änderungen der ärztlichen Approbationsordnung. Die seit den fünfziger Jahren nichtmehr novellierte Zahnärztliche Approbationsordnung wird intensiv diskutiert. In Salzburg dauert das Medizinstudium nur fünf Jahre, und auf EU-Ebene wird über eine Verkürzung der Studienzeit diskutiert. Die Regelungen zur ...

Movement Disorder Disease (MDD) is one general type of diseases that severely impair human motor ability and reduce the body controllability. Over millions of people in North America are suffering from these diseases and Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the most typical and common among them. PD is the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disease, affecting over 500,000 people in America a...