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  • Rating Scale (BARS), Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS), and Extrapyramidal Symptom Rating Scale (ESRS) are rating scales frequently used for such...
    13 KB (1,359 words) - 06:00, 24 March 2024
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    dyskinesia due to prolonged use of antipsychotic medications. The Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) examination is a test used to identify the symptoms...
    37 KB (3,897 words) - 03:19, 26 September 2024
  • Abnormal posturing is an involuntary flexion or extension of the arms and legs, indicating severe brain injury. It occurs when one set of muscles becomes...
    14 KB (1,521 words) - 20:48, 1 September 2024
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    From baseline to week 12, the least-squares mean AIMS (Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale) score improved by −3.3 points in the deutetrabenazine 36 mg/day...
    9 KB (652 words) - 03:18, 26 September 2024
  • Reflex (redirect from Reflex, abnormal)
    In biology, a reflex, or reflex action, is an involuntary, unplanned sequence or action and nearly instantaneous response to a stimulus. Reflexes are...
    18 KB (1,890 words) - 06:41, 17 September 2024
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    While the scale has been defined as a grading system for "abnormal" genitalia, the concept that atypical genitals are necessarily abnormal is contested...
    7 KB (811 words) - 22:54, 19 June 2024
  • combination of the two. Rhythmic movement disorder differs from Restless Legs Syndrome in that RMD involves involuntary contractions of muscles with no...
    18 KB (2,277 words) - 07:54, 2 January 2024
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    clinical scales and measurement systems exist to define genitals as normal male or female, or "abnormal", including the orchidometer, Prader scale and the...
    6 KB (572 words) - 18:45, 18 October 2023
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    Spasmodic torticollis (category Extrapyramidal and movement disorders)
    torticollis is an extremely painful chronic neurological movement disorder causing the neck to involuntarily turn to the left, right, upwards, and/or downwards...
    26 KB (3,172 words) - 07:28, 31 July 2024
  • Hemiballismus (category Extrapyramidal and movement disorders)
    basal ganglia. It is a rare hyperkinetic movement disorder, that is characterized by pronounced involuntary limb movements on one side of the body and...
    22 KB (2,818 words) - 16:00, 28 September 2024
  • voluntary muscle movement causes the simultaneous involuntary contraction of other muscles. An example might be smiling inducing an involuntary contraction...
    26 KB (3,312 words) - 20:16, 5 September 2024
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    19bp Ins/Del(rs141116007) were associated with scores of Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale in tardive dyskinesia positive schizophrenia subjects. Of...
    23 KB (2,545 words) - 08:52, 10 June 2024
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    Dystonia (category Extrapyramidal and movement disorders)
    is a neurological hyperkinetic movement disorder in which sustained or repetitive muscle contractions occur involuntarily, resulting in twisting and repetitive...
    40 KB (3,522 words) - 17:36, 3 August 2024
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    Parkinsonian gait (category Gait abnormalities)
    Parkinson's disease have abnormal postural sway in stance and treatment with levodopa increases postural sway abnormalities. During movement, it has been shown...
    37 KB (4,424 words) - 02:43, 28 March 2024
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    to disguise the random movements by voluntarily turning the involuntary, abnormal movement into a seemingly more normal, purposeful motion. Chorea may...
    45 KB (5,754 words) - 10:57, 15 February 2024
  • process. Involuntary commitment, which can be enforced legally through sectioning, is an important issue in the movement. When sectioned, involuntary treatment...
    137 KB (15,547 words) - 17:14, 5 October 2024
  • simple or complex. Motor tics are movement-based tics affecting discrete muscle groups. Phonic tics are involuntary sounds produced by moving air through...
    24 KB (2,502 words) - 19:39, 16 May 2024
  • listeners is most commonly associated with involuntary sound repetition, but it also encompasses the abnormal hesitation or pausing before speech, referred...
    60 KB (7,178 words) - 05:59, 13 July 2024
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    Progressive supranuclear palsy (category Extrapyramidal and movement disorders)
    head up and down as part of a test for the oculocephalic reflex. Involuntary eye movement, as elicited by Bell's phenomenon, for instance, may be closer...
    42 KB (4,519 words) - 15:44, 25 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eugenics in the United States
    gas chambers, many in the eugenics movement did not believe that Americans were ready to implement a large-scale euthanasia program, so many doctors...
    119 KB (13,537 words) - 14:13, 20 September 2024
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