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Motor disorders are disorders of the nervous system that cause abnormal and involuntary movements. They can result from damage to the motor system. [1]Motor disorders are defined in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) – published in 2013 to replace the fourth text revision – as a new sub-category of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Locomotive syndrome is a medical condition of decreased mobility due to disorders of the locomotor system. [1] The locomotor system comprises bones, joints , muscles and nerves . It is a concept put forward by three professional medical societies in Japan: the Japanese Society for Musculoskeletal Medicine, the Japanese Orthopaedic Association ...
This is a list of major and frequently observed neurological disorders (e.g., Alzheimer's disease), symptoms (e.g., back pain), signs (e.g., aphasia) and syndromes (e.g., Aicardi syndrome). There is disagreement over the definitions and criteria used to delineate various disorders and whether some of these conditions should be classified as ...
Symptoms of motor neuron diseases can be first seen at birth or can come on slowly later in life. Most of these diseases worsen over time; while some, such as ALS, shorten one's life expectancy, others do not. [2] Currently, there are no approved treatments for the majority of motor neuron disorders, and care is mostly symptomatic. [2]
A neuronopathy affects the cell body of a nerve cell in the peripheral nervous system. [5] Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Spinal muscular atrophy; Spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress type 1; Atypical motor neuron diseases; Dorsal root ganglion disorders
A nursing diagnosis may be part of the nursing process and is a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community experiences/responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes. Nursing diagnoses foster the nurse's independent practice (e.g., patient comfort or relief) compared to dependent interventions driven by physician ...
Electromyographic studies and nerve conduction studies show normal motor conduction velocity and latency with decreased amplitude of compound muscle action potentials. Pathologically, it is a noninflammatory axonopathy without demyelination. [3] Antibodies attack the coating of the motor neurons without causing inflammation or loss of myelin ...
Pathological diagnosis can only be made at autopsy by finding abundant glial cytoplasmic inclusions (GCIs) on histological specimens of the central nervous system. [ 46 ] Olivopontocerebellar atrophy can be used as a pathological term to describe degeneration of neurons in specific areas of the brain – the cerebellum , pons , and inferior ...