Movement Disorders

Movement Disorders — Expert Level Reference

How it begins

The semiology of abnormal movement: from the basal ganglia circuit to the patient's bedside. Parkinsonism, tremor, dystonia, chorea, myoclonus, tics and functional disorders, with their pathophysiology, differential diagnosis, pharmacosurgical treatment and movement emergencies that the internist cannot ignore.

What it covers

1. Concept, classification and phenomenological method
2. · Phenomenological definition of abnormal movements
3. · The four axes of clinical analysis
4. The basal ganglia: functional anatomy and circuit model
5. · The classic model of the direct and indirect pathways
6. · Beyond the classic model
7. · Clinical-anatomical correlation of lesions
8. Parkinsonian syndrome
9. · The cardinal signs in detail
10. Parkinson's disease
11. · Pathophysiology and Braak's hypothesis
12. · Clinical manifestations: the motor and non-motor spectrum
13. · Diagnosis
14. · Treatment of Parkinson's disease
15. · Long-term motor complications
16. Atypical and secondary parkinsonisms
17. · Atypical degenerative parkinsonisms
18. · Secondary parkinsonisms
19. Tremor
20. · Classification by activation condition
21. · Essential tremor
22. · Other forms of tremor
23. Dystonia
24. · Classification: two axes
25. · Focal forms of the adult
26. · Treable dystonias that should not be overlooked
27. · Treatment
28. Chorea, ballismus and athetosis
29. · Huntington's disease
30. · Acquired and secondary choreas
31. Myoclonus, tics, stereotypies and restless legs syndrome
32. · Myoclonus
33. · Tics and Tourette syndrome
34. · Restless legs syndrome (Willis-Ekbom disease)
35. Functional movement disorders
36. · Positive clinical signs of functionality
37. Diagnostic approach and complementary tests
38. · Directed anamnesis
39. · Tests according to suspicion
40. Principles of treatment and functional neurosurgery
41. · Dopamine depletors and VMAT2 inhibitors
42. · Deep brain stimulation (DBS)
43. · Multidisciplinary management
44. Drug-induced movement disorders
45. Movement emergencies
46. · Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS)
47. · Serotonin syndrome
48. · Other emergencies
49. Diagnostic integration and synthesis
50. · The master picture of phenomenology