An illustrated handbook which provides a discussion of the etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of movement disorders, such as Parkinson's Disease and related disorders, Dystonia, Huntington's Disease and other Choreas, tics, tremors, myoclonus, drug-induced disorders as well as peripheral and miscellaneous movement disorders.

Chapter 1: Introduction; Epidemiology; Evaluation of a Movement Disorder; Chapter 2: Parkinsonism; Definition; Classification; Parkinson's Disease; Parkinson Plus Syndromes; Chapter 3: Dystonia; Clinical Characteristics; Electrophysiology; Pathology; Primary Dystonia; Secondary Dystonia; Treatment; Chapter 4: Huntington's Disease and Other Choreas; Genetics; Pathology and Imaging of Huntington's Disease; Neuroacanthocytosis; Sydenham's Chorea; Dentatorubropallidoluysian Atrophy; Chapter 5: Tics; Classification; Treatment; Chapter 6: Tremor; Differential Diagnosis of Tremor; Physiologic Tremor; Essential Tremor - Definition; Tremor in Parkinson's Disease and Parkinsonism; Midbrain Tremor; Chapter 7: Myoclonus; Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsy; Myoclonus in Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease; Asterixis; Treatment of Myoclonus; Chapter 8: Movement Disorders Induced by Dopamine Receptor Blocking Agents; Oculogyric Crisis; Chapter 9: Peripheral and Miscellaneous Movement Disorders Hemifacial Spasm; Psychogenic Movement Disorders; Chapter 10: Agents for Treating Movement Disorders; Basal Ganglia; Dopamine Synthesis and Metabolism; Agents for Treating Parkinson's Disease; Agents for Treating Other Movement Disorders; Drug Information