This concise but comprehensive book will help interested readers in the health care professions to navigate their way through the jungle of movement disorders, including the potentially complex differential diagnosis and management. The different disorders are discussed in individual sections that explain how to examine the patient and recognize the disorder from its basic phenomenology, how to confirm a diagnosis, how to distinguish a particular disorder from related conditions, and how to treat each disorder effectively. The book makes liberal use of diagrams, algorithms, tables, summary boxes, and illustrations to facilitate solution of clinical problems at the bedside and to solidify previously learned clinical and therapeutic concepts. It will be of interest to a broad audience of health professionals, scientists, and medical students.       

Part 1: Poverty and slowness of voluntary movement: Bradykinesia, hypokinesia and akinesia

Weakness
Apathy, catatonia and mutism
Obsessional slowness
Part 2: Abnormalities of muscle tone: Spasticity
Rigidity
Paratonia
Stiffness
Atonia, hypotonia and negative myoclonus
Part 3: 'Unvoluntary' muscle activity: Tics
Stereotypies and mannerisms
Akathisia/restlessness
Part 4: Lack of organization or coordination of voluntary muscle activity
Apraxia
Limb ataxia
Part 5: Rhythmical involuntary movements: Tremor
Tremor-like conditions: rhythmic myoclonus, myorhythmia, epileptic syndromes and clonus
Part 6: Slow involuntary movements and abnormal posturing: Dystonia
Spasms and cramps
Myotonia and neuromyotonia
Part 7: Rapid involuntary movements: Chorea/ballism
Myoclonus and excessive startle
Myokymia
Part 8: Axial disorders of movement: Disorders of speech
Disorders of stance
Disorders of gait.