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Chorea combined with dystonia, formerly known as athetosis, in cerebral palsy

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Athetosis in cerebral palsy

This young woman has cerebral palsy with generalized athetosis that causes pain in her joints and impairs her speech. Occasionally, a few other involuntary movements can be seen. (Contributed by Dr. Joseph Jankovic.)

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Associated Disorders

  • Abetalipoproteinemia
  • Antiphospholipid syndrome
  • Ataxia telangiectasia
  • Ataxia with CoQ10 deficiency
  • Ataxia with vitamin E deficiency
  • Athetosis
  • Ballism
  • Benign developmental movement disorders
  • Benign hereditary chorea
  • Benign idiopathic dystonia of infancy
  • Benign neonatal sleep myoclonus
  • Benign paroxysmal torticollis
  • Bobble-head doll syndrome
  • Bradykinesia
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Chorea
  • Cortical myoclonus
  • Dopa-responsive dystonia
  • Drug-induced movement disorders
  • Drug-induced myoclonus
  • Essential tremor
  • Focal dystonia
  • Friedrich ataxia
  • Galactosemia
  • Generalized dystonia
  • Geniospasm
  • Glutaric aciduria
  • Gluten-associated ataxia
  • Hartnup disease
  • Head-nodding
  • Infantile shuddering attacks
  • Jitteriness
  • Juvenile Huntington disease
  • Juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
  • Juvenile parkinsonism
  • Leigh syndrome
  • Lesch-Nyhan disease
  • Methylmalonic acidemia
  • Miller-Fischer syndrome
  • Myoclonus-dystonia
  • Neuroacanthocytosis
  • Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation
  • Niemann Pick C
  • Oculogyric crisis
  • Oppenheimer dystonia
  • Opsoclonus myoclonus
  • Paroxysmal exertional dyskinesia
  • Paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia
  • Paroxysmal tonic upgaze of infancy
  • Phenylketonuria
  • Physiologic myoclonus
  • Post-infectious chorea
  • Post-pump chorea
  • Postinfectious cerebellitis
  • Postinfectious myoclonus
  • Provisional tic disorder (Transient tic disorder)
  • Refsum disease
  • Restless legs syndrome
  • Sandifer syndrome
  • Self-stimulatory behavior
  • Spasmus nutans
  • Spinal myoclonus
  • Stereotypies
  • Sydenham chorea
  • Tardive dyskinesia
  • Tic disorders
  • Tourette syndrome
  • Tyrosine hydroxylase deficiency
  • Wernicke encephalopathy
  • Wilson disease
  • Withdrawal emergent syndrome