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Movement Disorders

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Movement disorders (MDS) are neurological diseases caused by dysfunction of the motor control systems. They are extremely common, with an overall prevalence in the general population of more than 20%. However, these disorders are vastly underdiagnosed and therefore undertreated. Movement disorders are classified as hypokinetic (those associated with paucity of movement like the bradykinesia in parkinsonism) and hyperkinetic (those with excessive movement, like in tremors, dystonia, and tics). There are about 30 different types of movement disorder phenomenologies (Table 1). Each of these phenomenologies is the external expression a number of different diseases. For example, bradykinesia is a hypokinetic phenomenology, and it is the hallmark of different parkinsonian disorders like Parkinson disease (PD), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP and Multiple Systems Atrophy (MSA).

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  1. West Kendall Baptist Health South Florida & Florida International University HWCOM. Family Medicine Residency Program Program Director & Associate Professor, SW, Florida, USA

    Douglas J. Inciarte

  2. Department of Neurology, Movement Disorders Division Chief & Professor, University of Nebraska College of Medicine, Omaha, NE, USA

    Diego R. Torres-Russotto

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  1. Department of Family Medicine, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, USA

    Paul Paulman

  2. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA

    Robert B. Taylor

  3. Department of Family Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

    Audrey A. Paulman

  4. Department of Family Medicine, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA

    Laeth S. Nasir

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Inciarte, D.J., Torres-Russotto, D.R. (2021). Movement Disorders. In: Paulman, P., Taylor, R.B., Paulman, A.A., Nasir, L.S. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0779-3_173-1

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