Movement Disorders

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Summary

Imagine if parts of your body moved when you didn't want them to. If you have a movement disorder, you experience these kinds of impaired movement. Dyskinesia is abnormal uncontrolled movement and is a common symptom of many movement disorders. Tremors are a type of dyskinesia.

Nerve diseases cause many movement disorders, such as Parkinson's disease. Other causes include injuries, autoimmune diseases, infections and certain medicines. Many movement disorders are inherited, which means they run in families.

Treatment varies by disorder. Medicine can cure some disorders. Others get better when an underlying disease is treated. Often, however, there is no cure. In that case, the goal of treatment is to improve symptoms and relieve pain.

Start Here

• Overview of Movement Disorders (Merck & Co., Inc.) Also in Spanish

Diagnosis and Tests

• Electromyography (EMG) (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) Also in Spanish

Treatments and Therapies

• Use of Botulinum Neurotoxin for the Treatment of Movement Disorders (American Academy of Neurology) - PDF

Related Issues

• Dressing with Ease, Style and Comfort (ALS Association) - PDF

Specifics

• Angelman Syndrome (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
• Chorea (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
• Fragile X-Associated Tremor and Ataxia Syndrome (FXTAS) (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) Also in Spanish
• Functional Movement Disorder (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
• Myoclonus (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) - Short Summary
• Myoclonus (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) Also in Spanish
• Neuroacanthocytosis (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
• Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
• Paroxysmal Choreoathetosis Disease (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
• Paroxysmal Dyskinesias (Dystonia Medical Research Foundation)
• Sydenham Chorea (Saint Vitus Dance) (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
• Tardive Dyskinesia (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Genetics

• Genetics Home Reference: 3-methylglutaconyl-CoA hydratase deficiency (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: action myoclonus-renal failure syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: ADCY5-related dyskinesia (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: Allan-Herndon-Dudley syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: Alpers-Huttenlocher syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: Angelman syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: ataxia neuropathy spectrum (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: ataxia with vitamin E deficiency (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia type 1 (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: beta-propeller protein-associated neurodegeneration (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: biotin-thiamine-responsive basal ganglia disease (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: Boucher-Neuhäuser syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: brain-lung-thyroid syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: chorea-acanthocytosis (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: Christianson syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: CLPB deficiency (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: congenital mirror movement disorder (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: Costeff syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: dilated cardiomyopathy with ataxia syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: essential tremor (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: familial paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: familial paroxysmal nonkinesigenic dyskinesia (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: FOXG1 syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism-17 (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: Gordon Holmes syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: hypermanganesemia with dystonia, polycythemia, and cirrhosis (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: infantile-onset spinocerebellar ataxia (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: leukoencephalopathy with brainstem and spinal cord involvement and lactate elevation (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: Marinesco-Sjögren syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: McLeod neuroacanthocytosis syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: mitochondrial membrane protein-associated neurodegeneration (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: myoclonic epilepsy myopathy sensory ataxia (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: myoclonus-dystonia (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: Perry syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: PPM-X syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: PRICKLE1-related progressive myoclonus epilepsy with ataxia (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: rapid-onset dystonia parkinsonism (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: sepiapterin reductase deficiency (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: triosephosphate isomerase deficiency (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: VLDLR-associated cerebellar hypoplasia (National Library of Medicine)
• Genetics Home Reference: X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism (National Library of Medicine)

Statistics and Research

• Medical Marijuana in Certain Neurological Disorders (American Academy of Neurology) - PDF

Clinical Trials

• ClinicalTrials.gov: Ataxia (National Institutes of Health)
• ClinicalTrials.gov: Chorea (National Institutes of Health)
• ClinicalTrials.gov: Movement Disorders (National Institutes of Health)
• ClinicalTrials.gov: Tardive Dyskinesia (National Institutes of Health)
• ClinicalTrials.gov: Torticollis (National Institutes of Health)

Journal Articles References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)

• Article: Advances in progressive supranuclear palsy: new diagnostic criteria, biomarkers, and...
• Article: Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies: Fourth consensus...
• Article: The impact of obesity on neurodegenerative diseases.
• Movement Disorders -- see more articles
• Ataxia -- see more articles
• Tardive dyskinesia -- see more articles

Find an Expert

• Find a Neurologist (American Academy of Neurology)
• Movement Disorder Clinics (National Ataxia Foundation)
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Also in Spanish

Children

• EMG (Electromyography) (For Parents) (Nemours Foundation)
• Tics, Tourette Syndrome, and OCD (American Academy of Pediatrics)

Teenagers

• Tics (Nemours Foundation)

Patient Handouts

• Angelman syndrome (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
• Chronic motor tic disorder (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
• Facial tics (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
• Movement - uncontrollable (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
• Movement - uncontrolled or slow (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
• Movement - uncoordinated (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
• Movement - unpredictable or jerky (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
• Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA) (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
• Tardive dyskinesia (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish