World movement disorders day is observed every year on November 29. It is marked to create an awareness about conditions that ...

DEAR ERIC: I am a young adult with a movement disorder similar to Parkinson’s. It causes uncontrollable, violent, jerky, muscle movements, called dyskinesias, in nearly every part of my body. These ...

Dystonia can affect everyone, from small children to older adults. Childhood dystonia is usually generalized dystonia (affecting most body parts). It is usually caused by genetic factors, while ...

Living life while battling a movement disorder is not at all easy. Be it Dystonia or Parkinson’s disease, every disorder ...

Scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School have developed a targeted genetic test to improve diagnosis for X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism (XDP), a rare and disabling ...

Huntington’s disease (HD) is a genetic brain disease. HD causes the gradual breakdown of nerve cells in the brain. Huntington’s disease is a progressive disorder that gets worse over time. Most people ...

Getting one's groove on, A.K.A. busting a move, is an age-old tradition that dates back more than 50,000 years to the time of Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon humans, who rhythmically writhed to drumming ...