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Movement disorder
List of Movement disorders
- Akinesia (lack of movement)
- Athetosis (contorted torsion or twisting)
- Ataxia
- Ballismus (violent involuntary rapid and irregular movements)
- Hemiballismus
- Bradykinesia (slow movement)
- Chorea (rapid, involuntary movement)
- Dystonia (sustained torsion)
- Dystonia muscularum
- Blepharospasm
- Writer's cramp
- Spasmodic torticollis (twisting of head and neck)
- Parkinson's disease
- Spasms (contractions)
- Stereotypy (repetition)
- Tardive dyskinesia
- Tic Disorders (involuntary, compulsive, repetitive, stereotyped)
- Tremor (oscillations)
- Rest tremor (4-8 Hz)
- Postural tremor
- Kinetic tremor
- Essential tremor (6-8 Hz variable amplitude)
- Cerebellar tremor (6-8 Hz variable amplitude)
- Parkinsonian tremor (4-8 Hz variable amplitude)
- Physiological tremor (10-12 Hz low amplitude)
- Wilson's disease
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