Wrist actigraphy is a well established procedure used to measure the activity of a subject for long time periods. It is a valuable tool to detect abnormal movement patterns associated with several sleep disorders, including, insomnia, phase lag and periodic limb movements. A potential ability of the actigraphy data, together with other sources of physiological and behavioral information, is the...

OBJECTIVE Parkinsonism and other movement disorders have previously been reported in the acquired hepatocerebral degeneration associated with portosystemic shunting. However, there is no study to date about their prevalence as has been noted in general practice. METHODS One hundred and forty-three patients with hepatic cirrhosis from the gastroenterology clinic and internal medicine wards wer...

Neuronal synchronization in basal ganglia circuits plays a key role in the encoding of movement, procedural memory storage and habit formation. Striatal dopamine (DA) depletion during Parkinsonism causes abnormal synchronization in corticobasal ganglia loops resulting in motor dysfunction. However, the dynamics of the striatal microcircuit underlying abnormal synchronization in Parkinsonism is ...

Infantile cerebral palsy (CP) is a non-progressive brain disease of children, where the ability of movement, muscle tone and posture is abnormal due to the insult of developing, immature brain, mostly before, during or sometimes after birth. [Basically, CP started to develop impaired movement which associated with different abnormal reflexes, abnormal (hypotonic or hypertonic) muscle tone in ex...

An 18-year-old woman had low neck pain 2 days after a motor vehicle accident . Examination revealed tenderness of the paraspinal musculature and marked limitation of movement, but no further abnormal ity. Radiography of the cervical spine revealed almost total absence of the neural arch of the axis including the inferior articular facets. Only very short bony spurs were seen projecting posterio...

BACKGROUND Tardive dystonia and dyskinesia are potentially irreversible neurological syndromes. Successful electroconvulsive treatment (ECT) has been reported by multiple sources; however, the existing retrospective reviews and open prospective trials provide little information on the response rate. METHODS Eighteen consecutive patients with tardive dystonia or dyskinesia received a standard ...

Blepharoclonus refers to myoclonic rhythmic eyelid closure. This is an extremely rare abnormal movement of the eyelids. The symptom has an ill-defned anatomical localization and hypothesized etiologies are diverse. We describe a 42 year-old woman with known poorly controlled hypertension (HTN) who presented with a three-week history ofataxia, dysmetria, and uncontrolled eyelid twitching. The bi...

IntroductionTardive dyskinesia (TD) is a movement disorder caused by long-term treatment with dopamine antagonists such as antipsychotics. As there no medication universally effective for TD, prevention important. We propose that non-medical clinicians working in psychiatry can also be trained and involved screening programme TD. To facilitate programme, validation of standard tool translated t...