We present the clinical profile of a group of patients with myoclonus and dystonia sensitive to alcohol and address these cases in the context of essential myoclonus. Six patients from 4 families were selected: 4 men and ...

Background: Background Many different movement disorders have similar “jerk-like” phenomenology and can be misconstrued as myoclonus. Different types of myoclonus also share similar phenomenological characteristics that ...

Abrao J, Bianco MP, Roma W, Krippa JAS, Hallak JE - Spinal Myoclonus after Subarachnoid Anesthesia with Bupivacaine. Background and objectives: It is presented in this case report a very rare complication after spinal ...

Objective. The back-average technique is very useful to study the relation between the activity in the cortex and the muscles. It has two main clinical applications, Bereitschaftspotential (BP) recording and myoclonus ...

Background: There is little published work describing the electrophysiological characteristics of essential palatal tremor, a condition now believed by many to be a functional (psychogenic) movement disorder. Case Report: ...