Movement disorders

Generaltop

• Drug induced Movement Disorder Evaluation
  

  Drug induced movement disorders are often overlooked or misdiagnosed. This 'Drug induced movement disorders: evaluation' file helps the clinician to evaluate the patient systematically. Within 5 minutes a clinician can screen the patient on these often physically or socially disabling side effects.

  
  

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• WE MOVE - Worldwide Education and Awareness for Movement Disorders
  

  This site provides an overview and concise background information about the diagnosis and treatment of a broad spectrum of movement disorders. There is also access to a discussion forum.

• Movement Disorder Society
  

  Provides a lot of general information, including upcoming conferences and many useful links to various more specialised sites.

   

General: Rating scalestop

• Rating scales & scoring sheets
  

  Includes several Rating Scales and Scoring Sheets, for among others, dystonia, essential tremor, myoclonus, restless legs, spasticity, and progressive suprnuclear palsy.

• Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale
  

  MDVU - Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale.

General: Videostop

• School of Neurology, Neurobiology and Psychiatry
  

  Newcastle University School of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Psychiatry site with videos of patients with acute dystonia, tardive dyskinesia, and catatonia (mitgehen). (Actors portray the patients.)

• www.tsa-usa.org
  

  Includes a number of video excerpts of patients with tic disorders, made for a (commercial) DVD.

Medication induced movement disorders: see also Generaltop

• Anticholinergic medication for neuroleptic-induced tardive dyskinesia
  

  Anticholinergic medication for neuroleptic-induced tardive dyskinesia (Cochrane Review). Reviewer(s): Soares KVS; McGrath JJ. Review Group: Cochrane Schizophrenia Group; The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; Substantively amended: 14 February 1997; newly commented this issue.

Dystoniatop

Dystonia: Diagnosistop

• Dystonia Foundation
  

  Provides concise background information on the classification, diagnosis, causes, prognoses, and genetics of dystonia, as well as relevant differential diagnostics.

Dystonia: Treatmenttop

• Dystonia Medical Research Foundation
  

  A concise overview of the medication options for treating acute and tardive dystonia as well as information about botulinum toxin injections, surgery, and several alternative treatments.

• Motion disorders
  

  Informative background information about the surgical options for treating movement disorders such as Parkinson's, essential tremor, and dystonia.

• Botuline Toxine therapie
  

  Botuline Toxine therapie: Overzicht in het Nederlands van collega D. Tavy, neuroloog in het Leyenburg te Den Haag, ondersteund met afbeeldingen, tabellen en literatuurlijst.

• Botulinum toxin type A versus anticholinergics for cervical dystonia
  

  Botulinum toxin type A versus anticholinergics for cervical dystonia (Cochrane Review). Reviewer(s): Costa J; Espírito-Santo C; Borges A; Ferreira JJ; Coelho M; Sampaio C. Review Group: Cochrane Movement Disorders Group; The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; Substantively amended: 08 October 2004; unmodified this issue.

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• Tourette Syndrome Association
  

  The Tourette Syndrome Association provides extensive and solid medical information regarding the diagnosis, treatment, and scientific research of the disorder.
  

• Pimozide was superior to haloperidol for children and adolescents with Tourette's disorder and caused fewer side effects
  

  Giuliano, J. & Singer, H.S. (1998). Pimozide was superior to haloperidol for children and adolescents with Tourette's disorder and caused fewer side effects. Evid. Based Ment. Health, 1, p. 45.

Catatoniatop

• Overview
  

  Recent and succinct e-medicine overview by J. Brasic, with many direct links via keyword and a reading list.

• Somatic treatment of catatonia (Structured abstract)
  

  Somatic treatment of catatonia (Structured abstract) Assessed by: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination. First published: 1996. Review Title: Somatic treatment of catatonia. Reviewer(s): Hawkins J M, Archer K J, Strakowski S M, Keck P E. Source: International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, ISSN: 00912174; 1995; v.25(no. 4), p345, (345-369)

Catatonia: Bookstop

• Catatonia: a clinicians' guide to diagnosis and treatment
  

  Catatonia: a clinicians' guide to diagnosis and treatment. Foreword and table of contents from the textbook by Fink and Taylor. The book offers a complete overview of the available literature.

• Catatonia from psychopathology to neurobiology
  

  Textbook by Caroff et al., Catatonia from psychopathology to neurobiology. Focuses more on the neurobiological aspects of catatonia.

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