This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (54)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

GABRIEL A. SCHWARZ, M.D.; LAWRENCE J. BARROWS, M.D.

AMA Arch Neurol. 1960;2(4):420-434.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Introduction

The occurrence in adults of abnormal involuntary movements of the limbs on one side has been recorded for a long time. Some of the movements have been like those encountered in the choreas of children and have been called "hemichorea." Others have been ceaseless and violent, have involved the bigger limb joints, and have produced wider movements. These have been called "hemiballism." There has been a tendency to think of the adult hemichoreas and hemiballism as manifestions of the same process, the latter possibly being considered only a severer manifestation of the former.¹ Other workers are chary of such a similarity and prefer to think of hemichorea and hemiballism as separate disorders, with probably different etiologies and dissimilar locales of the causative lesions.²

Most observers have concurred in the idea expressed by Whittier³: "Hemiballism is the apparently inevitable symptom in man of destruction localized in the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Philadelphia

From the Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Dec. 2, 1959.

Supported in part by the Kirby-McCarthy Fund.

Read in part at the meeting of the Philadelphia Neurological Society, Feb. 6, 1959.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?