Movement Disorders

Question 1

Resting tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity, and postural instability → treat with dopamine (DA) replacement therapy

Answer 1

Parkinson disease

Question 2

Pediatric onset of sudden vocal or motor tics

Answer 2

Tourette syndrome

Question 3

Chorea, behavioral changes, and dementia

Answer 3

Huntington disease

Question 4

Postural tremor in the absence of other neurologic deficits

Answer 4

Essential tremor

Question 5

Paroxysmal unilateral flailing limb movements

Answer 5

Hemiballism (2° to a lesion of the subthalamic nucleus)

Question 6

Atrophy of the caudate and putamen

Answer 6

Huntington disease

Question 7

Tremor, ataxia, dysarthria, facial dystonia, parkinsonian signs, cognitive decline secondary to abnormal copper metabolism

Answer 7

Wilson disease

Question 8

Movement disorder associated with schizophreniform changes

Answer 8

Huntington disease

Question 9

Autosomal dominant movement disorder usually presenting between the ages of 35 and 50

Answer 9

Huntington disease

Question 10

Autosomal recessive movement disorder usually presenting between the ages of 5 and 15

Answer 10

Friedreich ataxia

Question 11

“Shuffling gait” and festination

Answer 11

Parkinson disease

Question 12

Movement disorder with Kayder-Fleischer rings

Answer 12

Wilson Disease

Question 13

Treatment is largely supportive for this movement Disorder

Answer 13

Huntington disease

Question 14

Loss of neurons in the substantia nigra

Answer 14

Parkinson disease

Question 15

Ataxia, areflexia, loss of vibration/ position sense, and cardiomyopathy

Answer 15

Friedreich’s ataxia