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Involuntary Movements

Known as: Movements involuntary, Movements, Involuntary, INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT (NOS) 
Uncontrolled and purposeless movements.
National Institutes of Health

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CHOREOATHETOSIS/SPASTICITY, EPISODICCONGENITAL DISORDER OF DEGLYCOSYLATIONDYSTONIA 16 (disorder)HYPERPHOSPHATASIA WITH MENTAL RETARDATION SYNDROME 4

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Dyskinetic syndromeMovement Disordersnervous system disorder

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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Targeted genomic sequencing identifies PRRT2 mutations as a cause of paroxysmal kinesigenic choreoathetosis
Background Paroxysmal kinesigenic choreoathetosis (PKC) is characterised by recurrent and brief attacks of involuntary movement… 
Review
2005
Review
2005
On the notion of motor primitives in humans and robots
This article reviews two reflexive motor patterns in humans: Primitive reflexes and motor primitives. Both terms coexist in the… 
1999
1999
Familial paroxysmal dystonic choreoathetosis: clinical findings in a large Japanese family and genetic linkage to 2q.
BACKGROUND Paroxysmal dystonic choreoathetosis (PDC) is a rare familial movement disorder that has been mapped to chromosome 2q31… 
1998
1998
Unique cerebral dysfunction following triphenyltin acetate poisoning
1 In animal studies, TPTA was found to be neurotoxic. In humans, variable CNS pictures have been described with or without… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Control of poststroke involuntary and voluntary movement disorders with deep brain or epidural cortical stimulation.
The effects of deep brain or epidural cortical stimulation on poststroke involuntary and voluntary movement disorders were… 
1997
1997
Hereditary chin trembling or hereditary chin myoclonus?
Hereditary chin trembling is a rare autosomal dominant disease often considered as an “essential tremor variant”. The clinical… 
1995
1995
Control of persistent hemiballismus by chronic thalamic stimulation. Report of two cases.
Persistent hemiballismus after stroke is often difficult to treat. The ballistic movement is sometimes so violent that… 
Review
1973
Review
1973
Illness and deviance.
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Spontaneous oral-facial dyskinesia.
Oral-facial dyskinesia is not uncommonly encountered as side-effect of chronic phenothiazine treatment or levodopa therapy, is… 
1968
1968
Hereditary quivering of the chin.
In1930Freydescribed anunusual involuntary movementofthemuscles ofthechin, inherited asa dominant characteristic through… 
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