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Diagnosis and Assessment of Parkinson Disease and Other Movement Disorders

The term movement disorders is often used synonymously with basal ganglia or extrapyramidal diseases . However, neither of the two latter terms adequately encompasses all the disorders included under the broad umbrella of movement disorders. Movement disorders are neurological motor…

Diagnosis of Neurological Disease

Neurological diagnosis is sometimes easy, sometimes quite challenging, and specialized skills are required. If a patient shuffles into the physician’s office, demonstrating a pill-rolling tremor of the hands and loss of facial expression, Parkinson disease comes readily to mind. Although…