Neurological tumors, such as gliomas and meningiomas are rarely presented by movement disorders. Early detection of neurological both basal ganglia arising tumors ganglia-sparing ones, presenting with disorders is crucial to prevent any further deficits.

Psychogenic movement disorders are heterogeneous and diagnostically challenging. Despite the growing literature on adult forms, clinical features in children have received relatively little attention. We retrospectively reviewed medical records and video of patients <18 years diagnosed with a psychogenic movement disorder at our institute between 2007 and 2010. We identified 14 patients (6 male...

Involuntary abnormal movements have been reported after ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke. Post stroke movement disorders can appear as acute or delayed sequel. At the moment, for many of these disorders the knowledge of pharmacological treatment is still inadequate. Dopaminergic and GABAergic systems may be mainly involved in post-stroke movement disorders. This article provides a review on dr...

Movement disorders are a diverse group of hypokinetic and hyperkinetic neurologic diseases characterized by abnormal function of the basal ganglia. In this chapter, we will discuss the four most common diagnoses encountered in subspecialty movement disorders clinics: Parkinson disease, essential tremor, dystonia, and spasticity. The presentation and natural history of each of these disorders va...

A 27-year old man presented with a complaint of ‘difficulty in walking’. He had stiffness in the left upper and lower limb on walking, motivating him to sit down and rest after walking some distance. Prolonged grip of an object produced stiffness in his fingers. He also had slurring of speech, curiously also on walking. He was asymptomatic at rest. Distal arterial pulses were normal and there w...