In chorea-acanthocytosis and McLeod syndrome, the co-occurrence of limb chorea, dystonia and peripheral neuropathy contributes to the peculiar gait and postural changes of these disorders. 10 11 These ...

A 34-year-old woman with a 2-year history of progressively worsening difficulties in walking, eating and swallowing, presented to our department. The patient's sister reported observing unusual ...

Objective To conduct the first prospective surveillance study of Sydenham’s chorea (SC) in the UK and Ireland, and to describe the current paediatric and child psychiatric service-related incidence, ...

Objectives Chorea, characterised by involuntary, irregular movements, is a rare neurological manifestation of antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). The specific clinical features remain unclear. This study ...

Unexplained chorea, especially among women, should prompt testing for antibodies associated with antiphospholipid syndrome, according to data published in Lupus Science & Medicine.“Chorea is a ...

VPS13A disease—previously known as Chorea-acanthocytosis—is an autosomal recessive condition resulting from mutations in the VPS13A gene, which encodes a lipid transfer protein. Patients typically ...

The chorea that Ingrezza treats results from Huntington’s disease, a genetic (inherited) condition that causes nerve cells in the brain to break down. The cause of Tourette syndrome is unknown.

In the clinical study that looked at Austedo in people with chorea, 90 people diagnosed with Huntington’s disease took either Austedo, at doses between 6 milligrams and 48 milligrams per day, or ...

The most common MRI finding was abnormalities of the basal ganglia (89.2%). There was no difference in patient recovery between treatment with insulin alone and in combination with other medications.

Autoimmune disorders: Conditions like systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and antiphospholipid syndrome, which affect the immune system, can lead to the development of chorea in pregnant people.

Whether these represent cases of Huntington's chorea or an adult type of benign chorea is difficult to decide, but certainly this syndrome differs from the present family in its late onset.

The idea that immune responses to infections could trigger OCD traces some of its roots to a childhood “dance mania” initially observed centuries ago in medieval Europe. In a 1686 book, the British ...