Pseudoathetosis

Pseudoathetosis
SpecialtyNeurology

Pseudoathetosis is abnormal writhing movements, usually of the fingers, caused by a failure of joint position sense (proprioception)[1] and indicates disruption of the proprioceptive pathway, from nerve to parietal cortex.

  1. ^ Spitz M, Costa Machado AA, Carvalho Rdo C, et al. (2006). "Pseudoathetosis: report of three patients". Mov. Disord. 21 (9): 1520–2. doi:10.1002/mds.21014. PMID 16817195. S2CID 43471025.
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