Background: It has been suggested that dopamine dysfunction may play a role in bipolar disorder (BD ... related clinical traits using tardive movement syndromes as dopamine proxy measure of ...

Movement disorders are neurological conditions in which patients manifest a diverse range of movement impairments. Distinct structures within the basal ganglia of the brain, an area involved in ...

Copyright: © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. In clinical practice, signs of exaggerated tendon tap reflexes associated with muscle hypertonia are ...

Movement disorders are a group of neurological syndromes in which the hallmark symptom is paucity of movement, excessive and/or involuntary movement or tremor. Movement disorders can be ...

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Eating disorders are characterized by a persistent disturbance of eating patterns that leads to poor physical and/or psychological health. The major eating disorders are anorexia nervosa ...

London W1T 4JF, UK; a.lees{at}ion.ucl.ac.uk The hotch potch of miscellaneous and largely unclassified phenomena which comprise a significant and fascinating part of movement disorders are a challenge ...

Personality disorders are deeply ingrained, rigid ways of thinking and behaving that result in impaired relationships with others and often cause distress for the individual who experiences them.

These pass into the central nervous system (CNS), are integrated and modulated by activity of the cerebellum, the extrapyramidal system, the limbic system, and the cerebral cortex, and provide ...

It’s the third most common movement disorder behind essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease. Dystonia is thought to begin in the part of the brain called the basal ganglia that controls how ...

Background: Second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs) are thought to have a lower likelihood of inducing extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) than are first-generation antipsychotics (FGAs). Clinical ...