Movement Disorders

100 Instructive Cases

Stephen G. Reich

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN: 9781841845241
• eBook ISBN: 9780203008454
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

Written in an easy-to-follow, quick reference format, Movement Disorders: 100 Instructive Cases provides a series of 100 case studies of patients with movement disorders. Radiology images, histopathology, and patient photographs are presented in full color. The book's uniform structure of listing each disorder followed by examination, discussion, a

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1- Familial dystonia, parkinsonism, ataxia, and dementia: what is it?
• Chapter 2- Primary dystonia: a surgical disease?
• Chapter 3- A curable form of dystonia not to be missed
• Chapter 4- A neurology consultation for Parkinson’s on the psychiatry service
• Chapter 5- Facial twitching: what is it and how do you treat it?
• Chapter 6- An uncontrollable arm
• Chapter 7- A woman who can walk but not stand
• Chapter 8- A child with a severe movement disorder on the psychiatry unit
• Chapter 9- Progressive slowing and gait disorder
• Chapter 10- Three faces of essential tremor
• Chapter 11- New-onset ‘tics’ in a patient treated for Gilles de la Tourette’s syndrome
• Chapter 12- How to roll-out the work-up when the patient’s brain has ‘rocks’
• Chapter 13- Parkinson’s disease, pain, and melanoma
• Chapter 14- Ear clicking after a stroke
• Chapter 15- Atypical parkinsonism and cerebellar ataxia
• Chapter 16- ‘Off’ dystonia
• Chapter 17- A man with Parkinson’s catching a few ‘Z’s’
• Chapter 18- A 44-year-old man with dizziness since the teens
• Chapter 19- Weakness, ataxia, and myoclonus in a 68-year-old woman
• Chapter 20- Chorea and action-induced myoclonus
• Chapter 21- A case of seizures, orofacial dyskinesias, and peripheral neuropathy
• Chapter 22- A case of intermittent chorea induced by coffee
• Chapter 23- A curable cause of dystonia
• Chapter 24- Severe truncal flexion in a man with Parkinson’s disease
• Chapter 25- Slowly progressive gait disorder in a 45-year-old woman
• Chapter 26- When both motion and mentation fail
• Chapter 27- Asymmetric limb rigidity and apraxia
• Chapter 28- PD, PDD, DLB, or AD?
• Chapter 29- Bent spine and knees in Parkinson’s disease
• Chapter 30- A family with progressive atypical parkinsonism, dementia, and neuropsychiatric changes
• Chapter 31- One wrong movement leads to another
• Chapter 32- A face to remember …
• Chapter 33- Destiny’s child
• Chapter 34- Hidden in plain view
• Chapter 35- A case of hand tremor where deep brain stimulation failed
• Chapter 36- Forgetful and fidgety
• Chapter 37- Too much of a good thing
• Chapter 38- Parkinsonism with dysautonomia: MSA or PD?
• Chapter 39- Levodopa responsive parkinsonism: is it Parkinson’s disease?
• Chapter 40- A woman with recurrent ataxia and facial myoclonus
• Chapter 41- Parkinson’s disease: after the honeymoon
• Chapter 42- An unusual hazard of treating depression
• Chapter 43- Parkinson’s gait: when falls become pitfalls
• Chapter 44- A 70-year-old man with tremor, ataxia, and bright middle cerebellar peduncles
• Chapter 45- Tremor after quarrel and minor head trauma: organic cause or psychologic trigger?
• Chapter 46- An 82-year-old man with flailing movements of his right side after a stroke
• Chapter 47- An 11-year-old boy with jerky movements and impaired gait
• Chapter 48- A 32-year-old woman with lymphadenopathy, arthritis, and chorea
• Chapter 49- A tremor in multiple sclerosis
• Chapter 50- Dopa responsive dystonia?Perhaps. But what else does she have?
• Chapter 51- An infrequent form of focal dystonia
• Chapter 52- A 43-year-old woman with severe involuntary movements
• Chapter 53- Is it PD, PSP, CBD, DLB, or MSA?
• Chapter 54- Valvular heart disease in a man with Parkinson’s disease
• Chapter 55- Ataxia and parkinsonism
• Chapter 56- What looks like corticobasal degeneration but is notcorticobasal degeneration?
• Chapter 57- Rapidly progressing parkinsonism
• Chapter 58- Clumsy gait and leg pain
• Chapter 59- A woman with progressive ataxia and hallucinations
• Chapter 60- A case of rhythmic abdominal movements
• Chapter 61- Parkinson’s disease: what to do when there seems nothing more to do
• Chapter 62- Is it PD or DLB? Timing is everything
• Chapter 63- Consult for a neurohepatologist
• Chapter 64- Tricking a patient with oromandibular dystonia
• Chapter 65- Focal dystonia in a string musician: strumming the wrong tune
• Chapter 66- An intractable movement disorder cured
• Chapter 67- Internet dyskinesias in Parkinson’s disease
• Chapter 68- An elderly lady with ataxia and neuropathy
• Chapter 69- Leg and back cramps: psychogenic or organic?
• Chapter 70- Early-onset chorea progressing to an ataxic syndrome
• Chapter 71- Hemisensory syndrome with an ‘upgoing toe’
• Chapter 72- Rapid-onset dystonia-parkinson in a brother and sister
• Chapter 73- A young man with psychosis, ataxia, and signal changes in the splenium
• Chapter 74- An unusual jaw tremor
• Chapter 75- What looks like Huntington’s disease but isn’t?
• Chapter 76- SCA patient with tremor preceding ataxia
• Chapter 77- Painful involuntary neck movements in a 45-year-old woman
• Chapter 78- A stimulating treatment for essential tremor
• Chapter 79- The coat hanger sign
• Chapter 80- Lewy body Parkinson’s disease in a familial case: what is idiopathic Parkinson’s disease?
• Chapter 81- A cerebellar syndrome without cerebellar signs
• Chapter 82- Facial twitches in an elderly man
• Chapter 83- A man with quick jerks, inappropriate vocalizations, chronic anxiety, and compulsions
• Chapter 84- A young man with a jerky hand
• Chapter 85- An unusual cause of stuttering
• Chapter 86- The case of the freezing man
• Chapter 87- A stridorous woman
• Chapter 88- Ataxia in a son and mother
• Chapter 89- ‘Here Comes the Judge’ (with absent left arm swing)
• Chapter 90- Changing tremor in a 45-year-old woman
• Chapter 91- Is tremor essential?
• Chapter 92- Low cholesterol can be bad for your health
• Chapter 93- A man with a jerky, useless arm
• Chapter 94- Chorea in a septuagenarian
• Chapter 95- Treatment of dyskinesias in Parkinson’s disease: new use of an old drug
• Chapter 96- Asymmetrical movement disorder and behavioral disturbance in a young man
• Chapter 97- A rock solid case of parkinsonism
• Chapter 98- A fragile diagnosis
• Chapter 99- Patient selection for deep brain stimulation for idiopathic Parkinson’s disease
• Chapter 100- Two guitarists with ‘dys-tune-ia’
• Index
• Back Cover