Articles related to MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Test your clinical knowledge on JB, a right-handed, 35-year-old patient with a history of generalized anxiety disorder, who came into the clinic to be evaluated and managed for atypical movements that started in adolescence. JB frequently exhibits quick shoulder shrugs, abrupt head movements to the right, and throat clearing during the neurologic examination. Examination results for the cerebellum, motor, sensory, and reflexes are unremarkable.

With an emphasis on syndromes involving cell surface and synaptic proteins, the authors discuss major aspects of AE in this work. In addition, they also present a useful method for diagnosing and treating the condition, as well as potential mistakes related to nonspecific antibody results.

A single, unifying etiology for FMD is not yet known, and this article from Practical Neurology characterizes diagnosing the disorder as “a process involving a careful history and examination for positive signs to rule in the diagnosis, while considering the differential diagnoses of functional presentations.”

A population-based longitudinal study in Korea showed relationships between high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels and variability with incident Parkinson’s disease (PD). People with a baseline HDL-C under 40 mg/dL were more likely to develop PD than those with HDL-C of 60 mg/dL or more, confirming previous findings but still questioning how variability in HDL-C may be linked to PD.