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Huntington’s Disease and Other Choreas

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Chorea consists of continuous, unsustained, nonstereotyped movements of variably changing speed and direction that seemingly flow from one muscle group to another, thus giving the appearance of “dancing.” The differential diagnosis of chorea is large, consisting of many diseases and disparate causes (Table 25-1). Most causes of chorea are hypothesized to involve basal ganglia dysfunction. Physiologically, hypoactivity in the subthalamic nucleus and medial pallidum is thought to correlate with chorea.

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  1. Parkinson’s Disease and Movement, Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, AZ, USA

    Charles H. Adler MD, PhD (Consultant and Co-Director, Associate Professor of Neurology) (Consultant and Co-Director, Associate Professor of Neurology)

  2. Mayo Medical School, Rochester, MN, USA

    Charles H. Adler MD, PhD (Consultant and Co-Director, Associate Professor of Neurology) & J. Eric Ahlskog PhD, MD (Chair, Consultant, Professor of Neurology) (Consultant and Co-Director, Associate Professor of Neurology) &  (Chair, Consultant, Professor of Neurology)

  3. Division of Movement Disorders, Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN, USA

    J. Eric Ahlskog PhD, MD (Chair, Consultant, Professor of Neurology) (Chair, Consultant, Professor of Neurology)

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Caviness, J.N. (2000). Huntington’s Disease and Other Choreas. In: Adler, C.H., Ahlskog, J.E. (eds) Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders. Current Clinical Practice. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-410-8_25

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