Categories

Question 1

List the categories of hyperkinetic disorders

Answer 1

10:
Dyskinesia
Tardive dyskinesia
Myoclonus
tics
chorea
ballism
athetosis
dystonia
spasm
tremor

Question 2

Tremor/ types

Answer 2

Most common!!!!!
Rythemic movement in one body part. (action tremmor or resting)
Types:
Toxic tremors - due to meds, toxins, withdrawl
cellebellar tremor

Question 3

Athetosis

Answer 3

inability to keep body in one position- slow writing CP

Question 4

Ballism

Answer 4

abrupt contractions of limbs - people can fall down. LARGE CONTRATIONS

Question 5

Chorea

Answer 5

Rapid involentary, random movement part of body subtle or severe (action or at rest)
huntingtons chorea (progressive/genetic)

Question 6

Spasm - types, what does it describe?

Answer 6

– tonic - continuous,
-clonic- repetitive and don’t last long.
cause and limit motion.
Spasm is also used to describe dystonia abnormal postures.

Question 7

Myoclonus

Answer 7

single involuntary, brief movements of a body part –like a jerk, can be rhythmic or not.
(action or at rest)
May occur in epilepsy.Hiccups (medulla)

Question 8

Tics

What does it look like?

Answer 8

PARTIAL VOL. CONTROL!
Tourette's
Rapid/patterned 
Simple: look like dystonia/myoclonus
Complex

Question 9

Tardive dyskinesia

Answer 9

antipsychotic drugs - orofacial dyskinesias

akathisia (motor restlessness)

Question 10

Dystonia

Answer 10

slow abnormal (nonrythmic) postures or Can have quick myoclonic movments involved
focal mouth dystonia or orofacial dyskinesia
*writers cramp

Question 11

Dyskinesia

Answer 11

general term for abnormal, involentary movement

orofacial dyskinesias or other parts of the body