Disorder Flashcards
What is?
-Too much or too little movemenet?
Dyskinesia
What is too much movement?
Hyperkinesia
What is too little movement?
Hypokinesia
What is unwanted, unregulated movement?
Constant, rapid movements of face, limb and tongue?
chorea - Hyperkinestic
What is slow, writhing movements often most pronounced in hands?
Athetosis - Hyperkinetic
What is wild, flailing movements or a constant rotatory movement of one arm or leg usually due to a lesion in the contralateral subthalamic nucleus
Ballismus- Hyperkinetic
What is non-progressive movement disorder with sustained muscle contractions causing abnormal postures and twisting, repetitive movmenets?
Dystonia - Hyperkinetic
- Death of doaminergic cells in substantia nigra pars compacta
- Tremor is only motor symptom that can’t be explained by the motor circuit
- Few movements
- Bradykinesia
- Resting tremors
- Rigidity
- Masked face
Hypokinesia - Parkinson Disease
What is slowness of movement?
-What is difficulty initiating movement?
Bradykinesia - Hypokinesia - Parkinson Disease
What is pill-rolling
What is lessen with movement and in sleep
What is worse with emotional stress
Resting tremors - Hypokinesia - Parkinson Disease