Movement disorder

List of Movement disorders

• Akinesia (lack of movement)
• Athetosis (contorted torsion or twisting)
• Ataxia
• Ballismus (violent involuntary rapid and irregular movements)
  • Hemiballismus
• Bradykinesia (slow movement)
• Chorea (rapid, involuntary movement)
  • Sydenham's chorea
  • Rheumatic chorea
  • Huntington's chorea
• Dystonia (sustained torsion)
  • Dystonia muscularum
  • Blepharospasm
  • Writer's cramp
  • Spasmodic torticollis (twisting of head and neck)
• Parkinson's disease
• Spasms (contractions)
• Stereotypy (repetition)
• Tardive dyskinesia
• Tic Disorders (involuntary, compulsive, repetitive, stereotyped)
  • Tourette's syndrome
• Tremor (oscillations)
  • Rest tremor (4–8 Hz)
  • Postural tremor
  • Kinetic tremor
  • Essential tremor (6–8 Hz variable amplitude)
  • Cerebellar tremor (6–8 Hz variable amplitude)
  • Parkinsonian tremor (4–8 Hz variable amplitude)
  • Physiological tremor (10–12 Hz low amplitude)
• Wilson's disease