What are movement disorders?

Movement disorders are neurological disorders in which there is an excess movement or pausity of movement, which is not due to weakness or paralysis.

Movement disorders are a result of changes in the brain cells  helping us  to move.  The filed of movement disorders is the one of the most active areas in Neurology. Basic researches are rapidly advancing in the understanding of the disease particularly in the mechanisms of cell death, pharmacology of the Dopamine system, motor physiology and molecular genetics.

COMMON DISORDERS

Hypokinetic disorders

Parkinsonism

Parkinson plus syndrome

 Corticobasal ganglionic degeneration

 Lewy body disease

 Multiple system atrophy

 Olivoponto cerebellar atrophy

 Progressive supra nuclear palsy

Shy dragger syndrome

Stiff person syndrome

 Hyper kinetic disorders

 Ataxia

 Chorea

 Dystonia

 Blepharospasm

 Hemifacial spasm

 Huntington disease

 Myoclonus

 Restless leg syndrome

 Dyskinesia

 Ticks

Tourets syndrome

Tremor

 Willson’s disease