10 PORTUGUESE BOOKS RELATING TO «PARATONIA»
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1
The Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma
Paratonia or gegenhalten (motor negativism)147 is a plastic-like increase in
muscle resistance to passive movements of the extremities, head, or trunk. The
resistance is felt as constant or nearly so throughout the movement arc and of
similar ...
Fred Plum, Jerome B. Posner, 1982
2
Jaarboek Fysiotherapie Kinesitherapie 2010
Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon) 2001;16(2):87-1o1. Gezondheidsraad. Dementie.
Den Haag: Gezondheidsraad, 2002. Hobbelen J, Bie Rde, Rossum E van. Effect
of passive movement on severity of paratonia: a partially blinded, randomized ...
P. Calders, J. J. X. R. Geraets, Jo Nijs, 2007
3
Guide to the Primary Care of Neurological Disorders
This is considered abnormal (paratonia) and can be differentiated from the full-
range, uninterrupted rigidity or cogwheeling of parkinsonism and the clasp- knife
phenomenon of spasticity. Paratonia is an uncommon finding, occurring in 8% of
...
4
Neurobehavioral Disorders of Childhood: An Evolutionary ...
In this study, the authors use the presence or absence of paratonia to predict
frontal cognitive impairment (Beversdorf and Heilman, 1998). Paratonia is
defined as an “alteration of tone to passive movement, and divided into
oppositional ...
Robert Melillo, Gerry Leisman, 2010
5
Essentials of Neuropsychological Assessment: Treatment ...
... gegenhalten, or frontal rigidity (i.e., a fluctuating hypertonia seen in frontal lobe
disease or diffuse dementias). Another form of paratonia, facilitory paratonia or
mitgehen, is also seen and is usually associated with frontal dysfunction. A good
...
Rik Carl D'Amato PhD, Lawrence C. Hartlage PhD, 2008
6
Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis
Others have confirmed Wartenberg's findings.22 c. Clinical Significance Rigidity
is a common finding of extrapyramidal disease, the most common example of
which is Parkinson disease (see Chapter 64). 3. Paratonia a. Definition Paratonia
is ...
7
DeJong's The Neurologic Examination
The arm remaining aloft, in the absence of parkinsonism or spasticity, indicates
paratonia. In facilitory paratonia (mitgehen), the patient cooperates too much. The
patient actively assists the examiner's passive movements, and the limb may ...
William W. Campbell, 2012
8
Enhancing the Quality of Life in Advanced Dementia
These authors describe paratonia, an involuntary rigidity response to passive
movement. Paratonic rigidity, also called gegenhalten, is differentiated from
Parkinsonian rigidity by the absence of cogwheel effect and inconsistency
throughout ...
Ladislav Volicer, Lisa Bloom-Charette, 2013
9
Encyclopedia of Movement Disorders, Three-Volume Set
... Morreale A, and Lugaresi E (1990) Neurological examination in subjects over
65 years: An epidemiological survey. Neuroepidemiology 9: 27–38. Beversdorf
DQ and Heilman KM (1998) Facilitory paratonia and frontal lobe functioning.
10
Principles of Inpatient Psychiatry
Both of these patterns of increased tone are different from paratonia (paratonic
rigidity or Gegenhalten). This form of hypertonus is associated with diffuse or
frontal brain disease; patients show erratic, "pseudoactive" increased tone,
seemingly ...
Fred Ovsiew, Richard L. Munich, 2008
