Progress and Prospects in Parkinson's Research/Symptoms/Athetosis

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Athetosis[edit | edit source]

Involuntary movements of the face, tongue and extremities.

A number of projects have concentrated on this symptom:-

Neilson (1974) Measurement of involuntary arm movement in athetotic patients [1]

Hallett and Alvarez (1983) Attempted rapid elbow movements in patients with athetosis [2]

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References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Neilson, Peter D. (1974) Full Text J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry. 37 (2) 171–177. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC494600/
  2. ↑ Halett, M. and Alvarez, N. (1983) Full Text J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry. 46 (8) 745–750. Attempted rapid elbow movements in patients with athetosis http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1027529/
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