Involuntary movements vocab

Question 1

What is shaking in the fingers due to agonists and antagonists actions termed?

Answer 1

physiological tremor

Question 2

What are startle reactions that are usually normal occurences and involve the whole body or just a large muscle group. (jerk b/w waking and sleeping)

Answer 2

myoclonic jerks

Question 3

What are twitches within the muscle often after exercise and are not pathological?

Answer 3

benign fascicculations

Question 4

What is name for decreased movement?

Answer 4

hypokinesia

Question 5

What pathologies commonly exibit hyokinesia?

Answer 5

depression and parkinson’s

Question 6

What is increased movement called?

Answer 6

hyperkinesia

Question 7

what exacerbates hyperkinesia and what decreases it?

Answer 7

Exasterbated by : emotional stres

Decreased by: repose (rest)

Question 8

What kinds of tremors are there?

Answer 8

1. Emotional
2. Familial
3. Senile
4. Parkinsonian
5. Intention
6. Postural

Question 9

Which tremor is characterized by it being rapid, and of low amplitude. It worsens with volitional movement?

Answer 9

Emotional

Question 10

What type of tremor is hereditary and usually affects the hands?

Answer 10

Familial

Question 11

What tremor is associated with aging?

Answer 11

senile

Question 12

What tremor is characteristic of “pill-rolling” at rest?

Answer 12

parkinsonian

Question 13

Which tremor disappears or dampens with volitional movement?

Answer 13

parkinsonian

Question 14

What type of lesion is associated with a parkinsonian tremor?

Answer 14

basal ganglion lesion

Question 15

What tremor worsens with refined volitional movement?

Answer 15

Intention tremor

Question 16

Where might a pathology be located in a patient that shows signs of an intention tremor?

Answer 16

cerebellar pathology

Question 17

What type of tremor occurs during maintenance of an intentional posture and disappears with movement?

Answer 17

Postural tremor

Question 18

What type of involuntary movement is random, quick movements stimulating fragments of normal movements?

Answer 18

Nontremorus Kyperkinesia

Question 19

What is the aka for nontremorous hyperkinesia?

Answer 19

Chorea

Question 20

What movement is described as being slow, writhing movements of the fingers and extremities that come and go?

Answer 20

Athetosis

Question 21

What tract is athetosis usually associated with?

Answer 21

pyramidal tract

Question 22

What involuntary movement is described as being slow, alternating contraction and relaxation of agonists and antagonists, with one movement predominating for a long time causing FIXED JOINT CONTRACTURES?

Answer 22

Dystonia

Question 23

What involuntary movement is described as violent, flinging movement of half of the body?

Answer 23

hemiballismus

Question 24

Quick, repetitive movements of the face, tongue, or extremities, associated with EMOTIONAL STRESS describes which involuntary movement?

Answer 24

Tics

Question 25

Motor unrest manifested as continual shifting of posture and/or movement due to parkinson’s and psychotropic medication use describes what type of involuntary movement?

Answer 25

Akathisia

Question 26

What describes tonic and clonic spasms of all or part of the body?

Answer 26

epilepsy

Question 27

What discribes involuntary movements of the face, mouth, tongue, and limbs. With the onset usually occuring months after prolonged use of neuroleptic agents?

Answer 27

Tardive dyskinesias

Question 28

What are neuroleptic agents?

Answer 28

drugs given for psychotic disorders.

Question 29

What is the largest single category of involuntary movements?

Answer 29

Tardive dyskinesias