Stereotypic movement disorder is a motor disorder that develops in childhood, typically before grade school, and involves repetitive, purposeless movement. Examples of stereotypic movements include ...

A recent study found that the way cerebellar neurons communicate with other brain regions is different in various movement disorders. The cerebellum is a region of the brain that helps us refine our ...

Functional neurological disorder (FND) describes motor and/or sensory symptoms that arise from the voluntary motor or somatosensory nervous system and are experienced as involuntary. FND is a ...

Movement disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, and dystonia, are characterized by their predominant motor symptoms, yet diseases causing abnormal movement also encompass several ...

Chorea and hemiballismus are both forms of involuntary movement disorders. Hemiballismus can cause sudden, violent, and flinging motions. Chorea can cause irregular, spontaneous, and nonrepetitive ...

What Is It? Proprioception is the body’s ability to sense its position in space. This sensory process encompasses the awareness of different parts of the body, allowing for coordination and balance in ...

A 59-year-old woman with a background of HIV living with an uncontrollable movement disorder presented to Eoghan Donlon, MB, BCh BAO, MRCPI, of the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in Dublin, ...

According to a new study led by Harvard researchers in Nature Neuroscience, this so-called "learning machine" speaks in two different codes—one for recently-acquired learned movements and another for ...