10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHOREATIC»
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Epilepsy and Movement Disorders
The hung up knee jerk appears to be a choreatic movement superimposed upon
the underlying deep tendon reflex. It is these choreatic movements that cause the
knee to 'hang up'. Hallett and Kaufman (1981) elicited choreatic movements ...
2
The Central Nervous System
(Animal models support that reduced activity of the subthalamic nucleus may be
crucial for development of choreatic movements.) This in turn leads to reduced
excitation of GPi, and thereby to less inhibition (disinhibition) of thalamocortical ...
3
Health Professionals' Guide to Physical Management of ...
High dopamine levels can result primarily in choreatic dyskinesias. The choreatic
type of dyskinesia is a symptom of the L-dopa medication, not PD. Motor
fluctuations may occur with or without choreatic dyskinesias (Hauser et al., 2006).
Choreatic movements are rapid and irregular, and become more pronounced
during voluntary movement and when patients try to maintain a posture. Patients
with chorea may try to cover up their disability by blending the pseudopurposeful
...
Jonathan H. Pincus, Gary J. Tucker, 2003
tHE FIrSt description of a choreatic patient, which dates from 1841, was by
Waters (Bruyn, 1968). With hindsight, we can tell that he had in fact painted a
picture of the condition that we now call Huntington's chorea. However, it was not
until ...
Gillian Bates, Sarah J. Tabrizi, Sarah Tabrizi, 2014
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The Bereitschaftspotential: Movement-Related Cortical Potentials
The induction of both dystonic and choreatic phenomena by L-dopa has
suggested a related pathophysiological background, also expressed by their co-
occurrence in choreoathetosis. Unfortunately, there is little to be added to this
hypothesis ...
Marjan Jahanshahi, Mark Hallett, 2003
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Neuroacanthocytosis Syndromes II
2.2.1 Patients Patient 3 was a 32-year-old man with an 8-year history of a
choreatic-dystonic syndrome, dysarthria and generalized epileptic seizures who
presented with recurrent distressing tasteless belching [29]. The frequency of
belching ...
M. Hallett, Ginger Irvine, Ruth H. Walker, 2007
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Clinical Nuclear Medicine Fourth Edition
CHOREATIC. DISORDERS. Huntington's disease (HD) is characterized by a
severe loss of striatal neurons. Not surprisingly, PET and SPECT studies in HD
showed a loss of striatal dopamine D2 receptors, but normal 18F-DOPA ...
Gary J.R Cook, M. N Maisey, K.E Britton, 2006
The choreatic movements seen in Huntington's disease appear to reflect striatal
dysfunction. On the basis of pharmacologic observations in patients with
Huntington's disease it has been proposed that the pathophysiology of
Huntington's ...
Daniel X. Freedman, Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, 1975
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Permuted Medical Subject Headings
Benign Hereditary sec Choreatic Disorders Chorea, Chronic Progressive see
Choreatic Disorders Chorea Gravidarum Chorea, Pregnancy-Induced sec
Chorea Gravidarum Chorea, Rheumatic see Choreatic Disorders Chorea, Senile
sec ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHOREATIC»
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Psychiatric Illness in Huntington's Disease
In fact, until recently the disease was more commonly referred to as Huntington's chorea, since the choreatic, dance-like movements are a ... «GNIF Brain Blogger, Jan 09»
