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Letter to the Editor
Most Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients present without known family history and without a diagnosed prodromal phase, underscoring the difficulty of employing primary (neuroprevention) and secondary (neuroprote...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2016 3:7
Published on: 6 June 2016
Research article
The modulation of levodopa transport across the blood brain barrier by large neutral amino acids is well documented. Protein limitation and protein redistribution diets may improve motor fluctuations in patien...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2016 3:8
Published on: 26 May 2016
Case report
A patient with right-side-predominant Parkinson’s disease presented visual artwork which improved in resemblance to the model which he was copying with increasing doses of levodopa. I propose that increased do...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2016 3:6
Published on: 21 March 2016
Research article
Parkinson’s disease patients are at an elevated risk of developing cognitive impairment. Although cognitive impairment is one of the strongest predictors of quality of life, dopaminergic anti-parkinsonian medi...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2016 3:5
Published on: 7 March 2016
Research article
This paper describes the use of real-time magnetic resonance imaging in visualizing and quantifying oral cavity motor strategies employed by 6 healthy, elite horn players and 5 horn players with embouchure dys...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2016 2:15
Published on: 23 February 2016
Research article
Lack of awareness of involuntary movements is a curious phenomenon in patients with certain movement disorders. An interesting anecdotal observation is that patients with essential tremor (ET) often seem unawa...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2016 3:4
Published on: 12 February 2016
Commentary
Clinical signs are critical in ascertaining the functional nature of a gait disorder. Four signs of gait impairment have been documented in the course of examining patients with clinically definite functional ...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2016 3:3
Published on: 12 February 2016
Case Report
Freezing of gait (FoG) is a debilitating feature of Parkinson’s disease and other parkinsonian disorders. This case demonstrates a variant of freezing of gait in a non-parkinsonian patient with a lesion of the...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2016 3:2
Published on: 29 January 2016
Research article
Various postural deformities appear during progression of Parkinson’s disease (PD), but the underlying pathophysiology of these deformities is not well understood. The angle abnormalities seen in individual pa...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2016 3:1
Published on: 29 January 2016
Review
Spinal-generated movement disorders (SGMDs) include spinal segmental myoclonus, propriospinal myoclonus, orthostatic tremor, secondary paroxysmal dyskinesias, stiff person syndrome and its variants, movements ...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2015 2:18
Published on: 24 December 2015
The Publisher’s Erratum to this article has been published in Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2016 3:18
Research article
Organic psychosis effects up to 70 % of patients with PD at some point yet no widely accepted scale for this entity exists.
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2015 2:17
Published on: 1 December 2015
Review
Saccades are rapid eye movements designed to shift the fovea to objects of visual interest. Abnormalities of saccades offer important clues in the diagnosis of a number of movement disorders. In this review, w...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2015 2:14
Published on: 15 October 2015
Case report
Focal task-specific dystonia is an unusual movement disorder that may affect musicians specifically when they perform on their instruments. Muscles of the lower face, lower limb and upper limb may be involved ...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2015 2:16
Published on: 24 September 2015
Case report
Pseudobulbar affect is a common symptom in neurodegenerative diseases and can also result from lesions in cortical, subcortical and brainstem regions. In Parkinson’s disease (PD), pseudobulbar affect (PBA) can...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2015 2:13
Published on: 14 August 2015
Case report
The syndrome of the jerky dystonic hand is recognized as a consequence of infarction of the posterior thalamus. A patient with multiple risk factors for stroke developed jerky dystonia of more proximal involve...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2015 2:12
Published on: 10 July 2015
Case report
Dystonia is a hyperkinetic movement disorder related to dysfunction of inhibitory basal ganglia and cortical circuits. GABA is the major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system. Quinolones ca...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2015 2:10
Published on: 4 May 2015
Research article
Sleep disturbances are among the most common non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD), greatly interfering with daily activities and diminishing life quality. Pharmacological treatments have not been sat...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2015 2:11
Published on: 2 April 2015
Research article
Arrhythmokinesis, the variability in repetitive movements, is a fundamental feature of Parkinson’s disease (PD). We hypothesized that unimanual repetitive alternating finger tapping (AFT) would reveal more arr...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2015 2:8
Published on: 2 April 2015
Research article
Dopamine agonists (DAs) are a first-line therapy for moderate-to-severe restless legs syndrome (RLS), but these treatments may lead to complications, such as augmentation and impulse control disorders, requiri...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2015 2:9
Published on: 30 March 2015
Research article
Essential tremor (ET) is a common condition associated with significant physical and psychosocial disability. “Classic” ET is a clinical syndrome of action tremor in the upper limbs and less commonly the head,...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2015 2:4
Published on: 2 March 2015
Research article
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative syndrome of the basal ganglia (BG) believed to disrupt cortical-subcortical pathways critical to motor, cognitive and expressive language function. Recent studie...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2015 2:5
Published on: 2 March 2015
Research article
Primary bowing tremor (PBT) occurs in violinists in the right bowing-arm and is a highly nonlinear and non-stationary signal. However, Fourier-transform based methods (FFT) make the a priori assumption of line...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2015 2:3
Published on: 16 February 2015
Research article
Differentiating movement disorders is critical for appropriate treatment, prognosis, and for clinical trials. In clinical trials this is especially important as effects can be diluted by inclusion of inappropr...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2015 2:6
Published on: 16 February 2015
Case report
Cortical tremor (CT) is a form of cortical reflex myoclonus that can mimic essential tremor (ET). Clinical features that are helpful in distinguishing CT from ET are the irregular and jerky appearance of the m...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2015 2:7
Published on: 2 February 2015
Case report
Sydenham’s chorea is often regarded as a relatively benign and self-limiting condition. Treatment is typically symptomatic, although occasionally immunomodulatory therapies are required in severe forms. Here w...
Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2015 2:2
Published on: 21 January 2015
