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Myoclonus-dystonia (DYT11)

This patient displays multifocal myoclonic jerks predominantly affecting the head, torso, and proximal upper extremities. While writing, she tightly grips the pen and flexes involuntary at the wrist (writer’s cramp). (Contributed by Dr. Christopher Kenney.)

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  • Action myoclonus renal failure syndrome
  • Adult Gaucher disease
  • Alcohol-sensitive myoclonus with dystonia
  • Alzheimer disease
  • Angelman syndrome
  • Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis
  • Antibody-associated myoclonus syndromes
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  • Benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy
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  • Biotin responsive encephalopathy,
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  • Celiac disease
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  • Cherry-red spot myoclonus syndrome
  • Corticobasal degeneration
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
  • Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy
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  • Dravet syndrome
  • Drug-induced myoclonus
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  • Ekbom syndrome
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  • Epilepsy progressive myoclonus type 1
  • Epilepsy with myoclonic absences
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  • FAME
  • Familial adult myoclonic epilepsy
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  • GM2 gangliosidoses
  • Hemifacial spasm
  • Hepatic encephalopathy
  • Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
  • Idiopathic inflammatory syndromes
  • Infectious syndromes
  • Juvenile Huntington disease
  • Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
  • Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
  • Lafora body disease
  • Lance-Adams syndrome
  • Late onset neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
  • Lewy body disease
  • MERRF
  • Malabsorption syndromes
  • May-White syndrome
  • Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy
  • Mitochondrial encephalopathy
  • Multiple system atrophy
  • Myoclonic absences
  • Myoclonic epilepsy in infancy
  • Myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibers
  • Myoclonic seizures
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  • Paramyoclonus multiplex of Friedreich
  • Paraneoplastic syndromes
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  • Postencephalitic myoclonus
  • Progressive encephalomyelitis with rigidity and myoclonus and glycine receptor antibodies
  • Progressive myoclonic ataxia
  • Progressive myoclonic ataxia
  • Progressive myoclonus epilepsies
  • Ramsay Hunt syndrome
  • Renal failure myoclonus syndrome
  • Reticular reflex myoclonus
  • SCA
  • Severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy
  • Sialidosis
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  • Spinocerebellar ataxias
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