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OCULOGYRIC CRISIS 

DOPAMINE BIO AMINE DEFECTS

GTPCH1 (AR)

PRESENTATION IN INFANCY

SEIZURES/ INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY

TRUNCAL HYPOTONIA/ LIMB HYPERTONIA

RX: RESPONSIVE TO HIGH-DOSE LEVODOPA

GTPCH1 (AD) 

CAN PRESENT AT LATER AGE

EARLY ONSET FOOT DYSTONIA (EQUINOVARUS)

OCCASIONALLY, UL DYSTONIA/ TREMOR

LATER PARKINSONISM WITH POSTURAL TREMOR

OCD/ SPASTICITY/ SCOLIOSIS

DIURNAL FLUCTUATIONS

PHENOTYPES:

BENIGN PARKINSONISM

FOOT DYSTONIA

MYOCLONUS DYSTONIA

SPASTIC PARAPARESIS

RX: EXCELLENT RESPONSE TO LEVODOPA 

 

TYROSINE HYDROXYLASE - TYPE A

CEREBRAL PALSY/ JUVENILE PARKINSONISM

OGC/ UPPER LIMB DYSTONIA

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION

RX: GOOD LEVODOPA RESPONSE 

TYROSINE HYDROXYLASE - TYPE B

TREMOR/ PTOSISMENTAL RETARDATION

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION

HYPOTONIA/ DELAYED MILESTONES

RX: GOOD LEVODOPA RESPONSE 

SEPIAPTERIN REDUCTASE DEFICIENCY

MICROCEPHALY

MENTAL RETARDATION/ PARKINSONISM

OGC/ AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION

HYPOTONIA/ SPASTICITY

RX: HIGH DOSE OF LEVODOPA

PTP SYNTHASE DEFICIENCY (PTPS)

HYPERPHENYLALANINEMIA

DYSTONIA/ EPILEPSY

HYPOTONIA/ OPHISTOTONUS

RIGIDITY/ CHOREA

RX: EXCELLENT LEVODOPA RESPONSE

AADC DEFICIENCY

PHENOTYPES:

SPASTIC DIPLEGIA LIKE CP

SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA

FOCAL DYSTONIA

RIGIDITY/ BRADYKINESIA

PAROXYSMAL MOVEMENT DISORDERS

INFANTILE ONSET:

HYPOTONIA

MIMIC NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE

RIGIDITY/ MULTIFOCAL MYOCLONUS

OCULOGYRIC CRISIS

DIURNAL OR WEEKLY FLUCTUATIONS

RX: DOPAMINE AGONIST/ MAO INHIBITORS

PYRIDOXINE 100-200MG/DAY

FOLIC ACID

TRANSPORTOPATHIES

VMAT2 DEFICIENCY (SLC18A2)

INFANTILE DYSTONIA PARKINSONISM

AUTONOMIC INSTABILITY

RX: DOPAMINE AGONIST

LEVODOPA WORSENS SYMPTOMS

DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER DEFICIENCY SYNDROME (SLC6A3)

TYPICAL: INFANTILE

ATYPICAL: ADULT-ONSET

PARKINSONISM/ DYSTONIA

OCULOGYRIC CRISIS/ OCULAR FLUTTER

SACCADIC INITIATION PROBLEM

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION

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PAROXYSMAL UPGAZE

NORMAL VARIANT

AGE < 2YRS

 

GRID2

ATAXIA

 

CACNA1 

EPISODIC ATAXIA

OROMANDIBULAR DYSTONIA

CHOREA-ACANTHOCYTOSIS (VPS13A)

AGE OF ONSET 20-60YRS

ACTION TONGUE DYSTONIA

FEEDING DYSTONIA/ TICS

RUBBER-MAN GAIT/DROP ATTACK

NEUROPATHY/ MYOPATHY

PSYCHIATRIC MANIFESTATIONS/ SEIZURE 

HEPATO-SPLEENOMEGALY

LAB:  CPK/ LFT ELEVATED

ACANTHOCYTES TO BE SEEN IN 1:1 DILUTION IN NORMAL SALINE WITH PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPE

ACANTHOCYTE CAN BE ABSENT

DYT3 (TAF1)

PARKINSONISM

ONLY MALES AFFECTED

X-LINKED RECESSIVE

JAW AND NECK DYSTONIA COMMON

LATER BECOME GENERALIZED

UL DYSTONIA (LESS COMMON)

DYT6 (THAP1)

AGE OF ONSET 5-38YRS

NECK AND UPPER LIMB DYSTONIA

UPPER LIMB TREMOR

DYSPHONIA

DYT24 (ANO3)

ESSENTIAL TREMOR PHENOTYPE

CRANIOCERVICAL DYSTONIA

FAST MYOCLONUS

DYT25 (GNAL)  

AGE OF ONSET 7-54 YRS

CERVICAL/ CRANIAL DYSTONIA

OROMANDIBULAR/ LARYNX

TREMOR

 

KMT2B

MEAN AGE OF ONSET 7 YRS

LOWER LIMB ONSET/ GENERALIZED

PROMINENT OMD AND CERVICAL DYSTONIA/OPHISTOTONUS

MENTAL RETARDATION

SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS

ELONGATED FACE/ BULBOUS NASAL TIP

MISSENSE VARIANT—LATE PRESENTATION

RX: DBS USEFUL

SCP2 MUTATIONS 

FOCAL OMD/ TORTICOLLIS

ATAXIA/ DYSTONIA/ MOTOR NEUROPATHY

MRI: CEREBRAL/ PONS WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY

BASAL GANGLIA IRON DEPOSITION

BRAIN MINERALIZATION DISORDERS

WILSON DISEASE  

LIVER/ NEUROLOGICAL/ PSYCHIATRY

DYSTONIA/ CHOREA/ PARKINSONISM

DEPRESSION/ OCD/ PHOBIAS

PROTEINURIA/ ARTHRITIS/SUNFLOWER CATARACT

CARDIOMYOPATHY/ ARRHYTHMIAS

 

NEUROFERRITINOPATHY

ORO-MANDIBULAR DYSKINESIA (85%)

JAW DYSTONIA/ BLEPHAROSPASM

FOCAL LOWER LIMB CHOREA /DYSTONIA 

ACUTE BALLISMUS 

LESS COMMON: ATAXIA/ PARKINSONISM/ TICS/TREMOR

LIP-SMACKING/ WRITER'S CRAMP

FRONTAL SUBCORTICAL COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION

ACERULOPLASMINEMIA 

AGE OF ONSET 30-70YRS

OROFACIAL DYSTONIA/ CERVICAL DYSTONIA

COGNITIVE DECLINE/ ATAXIA/ TREMOR/ CHOREA

PARKINSONISM (20%)

DIABETES MELLITUS/ LIVER DYSFUNCTION

RETINAL DEGENERATION

LAB: ABSENT CERULOPLASMIN

HETEROZYGOUS: MODERATELY REDUCED LEVEL

INCREASED FERRITIN

RX: DEFERIPRONE STARTING DOSE 15MG/KG/DAY

TWO DIVIDED DOSES

CAN TITRATE TO MAX 50MG/KG/DAY

PHLEBOTOMY 300ML EVERY 15 DAYS

LYSOSOMAL

GM1 GANGLIOSIDOSIS

TYPE 1  (INFANTILE) 

COGNITION/ SEIZURES

CORNEAL OPACITY

TYPE 2 (JUVENILE)

COGNITION/ DYSTONIA

ORGANOMEGALY/ CHERRY RED SPOT

TYPE 3 (ADULT)

DYSTONIA/ SPINAL BONY ABNORMALITY

ANGIOKERATOMA (TRUNK)

LIKE IN FABRY'S DISEASE

LESCH-NYHAN SYNDROME

ARTHRITIS/ SELF MUTILATION

AUTOIMMUNE

RI AB

AGE OF ONSET >40YRS

SUBACUTE ONSET PARKINSONISM

JAW CLOSING DYSTONIA

PSP PHENOTYPE

OCULOPALATAL-MYOCLONUS

NEOPLASIA: BREAST/ OVARY

METABOLIC

DRUGS

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DYSARTHRIA + ANARTHRIA 

GM1 GANGLIOSIDOSIS

TYPE 1  (INFANTILE) 

COGNITION/ SEIZURES

CORNEAL OPACITY

TYPE 2 (JUVENILE)

COGNITION/ DYSTONIA

ORGANOMEGALY/ CHERRY RED SPOT

TYPE 3 (ADULT)

DYSTONIA/ SPINAL BONY ABNORMALITY

ANGIOKERATOMA (TRUNK)

LIKE IN FABRY'S DISEASE

NIEMANN PICK C DISEASE

VSGP/ GELASTIC CATAPLEXY

ATAXIA/ DYSTONIA/ CHOREA

PARKINSONISM

HEPATOSPLEENOMEGALY

THROMBOCYTOPENIA

 

LESCH-NYHAN SYNDROME

ARTHRITIS/ SELF MUTILATION

AADC DEFICIENCY

PHENOTYPES:

SPASTIC DIPLEGIA LIKE CP

SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA

FOCAL DYSTONIA

RIGIDITY/ BRADYKINESIA

PAROXYSMAL MOVEMENT DISORDERS

INFANTILE ONSET:

HYPOTONIA

MIMIC NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE

RIGIDITY/ MULTIFOCAL MYOCLONUS

OCULOGYRIC CRISIS

DIURNAL OR WEEKLY FLUCTUATIONS

RX: DOPAMINE AGONIST/ MAO INHIBITORS

PYRIDOXINE 100-200MG/DAY

FOLIC ACID

H-ABC/ DYT4 (TUBB4) 

HYPOMYELINATION WITH ATROPHY OF BASAL GANGLIA NAD CEREBELLUM

DYSTONIA/ ATAXIA/ COGNITION

WHISPERING DYSPHONIA

MICROCEPHALY/ SPASTICITY

DYT6 (THAP1)

AGE OF ONSET 5-38YRS

NECK AND UPPER LIMB DYSTONIA

UPPER LIMB TREMOR

DYSPHONIA

ROPD/ DYT12 (ATP1A3)

AGE OF ONSET 4- 55 YRS

DYSTONIA WITH PARKINSONISM OVER DAYS TO WEEKS

ABRUPT ONSET THEN STABILIZES  

MILD IMPROVEMENT POSSIBLE

TRIGGER: FEVER/ STRESS/ ALCOHOL

RX: POOR LEVODOPA RESPONSE

DYT16 (PRKRA)

PROMINENT BULBAR SYMPTOMS

BECOMES GENERALIZED

WILSON DISEASE

LIVER/ NEUROLOGICAL/ PSYCHIATRY

DYSTONIA/ CHOREA/ PARKINSONISM

DEPRESSION/ OCD/ PHOBIAS

PROTEINURIA/ ARTHRITIS/SUNFLOWER CATARACT

CARDIOMYOPATHY/ ARRYTHMIAS

PKAN (PANK2) 

TYPICAL PKAN:

AGE OF ONSET <12YRS

DYSARTHRIA/ DYSTONIA/ OPHISTOTONUS

PRAYING MANTIS SIGN/ CHOREA

PARKINSONISM/ SPASTICITY/ OPTIC ATROPHY

RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA (25%)

ACANTHOCYTES (8%)

ATYPICAL PKAN:

EARLY CHILDHOOD TO LATE ADULTHOOD

SLOWER PROGRESSION

NEUROPSYCHIATRIC MANIFESTATIONS

OCD/ IMPULSIVITY/ DEPRESSION

PALILALIA/ TICS

CAN MIMIC JUVENILE PARKINSONISM

CAN MIMIC TOURETTE SYNDROME

RX: DEFERIPRONE 30MG/KG/DAY

MAY BE USEFUL (MIXED RESULTS)

DBS MAY BE USEFUL

SLC30A10 

MANGANESE TRANSPORTER

SPASTICITY/ FINE TREMORS

MEIG SYNDROME (PRIMARY)  

H-ABC/ DYT4 (TUBB4)

HYPOMYELINATION WITH ATROPHY OF BASAL GANGLIA AND CEREBELLUM

DYSTONIA/ ATAXIA/ COGNITION

WHISPERING DYSPHONIA

MICROCEPHALY/ SPASTICITY

DYT6 (THAP1)

AGE OF ONSET 5-38YRS

NECK AND UPPER LIMB DYSTONIA UPPER LIMB TREMOR

DYSPHONIA

DYT24 (ANO3)

ESSENTIAL TREMOR PHENOTYPE

CRANIOCERVICAL DYSTONIA

FAST MYOCLONUS

DYT25 (GNAL)  

AGE OF ONSET 7-54 YRS

CERVICAL/ CRANIAL DYSTONIA

OROMANDIBULAR/ LARYNX

TREMOR

KMT2B

MEAN AGE OF ONSET 7 YRS

LOWER LIMB ONSET/ GENERALIZED

PROMINENT OMD AND CERVICAL DYSTONIA/OPHISTOTONUS

MENTAL RETARDATION

SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS

ELONGATED FACE/ BULBOUS NASAL TIP

MISSENSE VARIANT—LATE PRESENTATION

RX: DBS USEFUL

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ADULT FOCAL DYSTONIA

NEUROFERRITINOPATHY

ORO-MANDIBULAR DYSKINESIA (85%)

JAW DYSTONIA/ BLEPHAROSPASM

FOCAL LOWER LIMB CHOREA /DYSTONIA 

ACUTE BALLISMUS 

LESS COMMON: ATAXIA/ PARKINSONISM/ TICS/TREMOR

LIP-SMACKING/ WRITER'S CRAMP

FRONTAL SUBCORTICAL COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION

ACERULOPLASMINEMIA 

AGE OF ONSET 30-70YRS

OROFACIAL DYSTONIA/ CERVICAL DYSTONIA

COGNITIVE DECLINE/ ATAXIA/ TREMOR/ CHOREA

PARKINSONISM (20%)

DIABETES MELLITUS/ LIVER DYSFUNCTION

RETINAL DEGENERATION

LAB: ABSENT CERULOPLASMIN

HETEROZYGOUS: MODERATELY REDUCED LEVEL

INCREASED FERRITIN

RX: DEFERIPRONE STARTING DOSE 15MG/KG/DAY

TWO DIVIDED DOSES

CAN TITRATE TO MAX 50MG/KG/DAY

PHLEBOTOMY 300ML EVERY 15 DAYS

WOODHOUSE SAKATI SYNDROME (DCAF17)

SPECTRUM: RAPIDLY DISABLING TO MILD SYMPTOMS

COGNITIVE DECLINE

DEAFNESS/ DYSTONIA

PARKINSONISM/ ATAXIA

ALOPECIA./ DIABETES/ HYPOGONADISM

TRIANGULAR FACE/ HYPERTELORISM

SCP2 MUTATIONS 

FOCAL OMD/ TORTICOLLIS

ATAXIA/ DYSTONIA/ MOTOR NEUROPATHY

MRI: CEREBRAL/ PONS WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY

BASAL GANGLIA IRON DEPOSITION

BRAIN MINERALIZATION  DISORDER

KUFOR RAKEB SYNDROME (ATP13A2)

PARK9/ SPG78

COGNITION/ PARKINSONISM/ VSGP

VISUAL HALLUCINATION

OCULOGYRIC CRISIS

SPG78: LATE SPASTICITY WITHOUT PARKINSONISM

FACIAL-FAUCIAL-FINGER-MYOCLONUS

PRIMARY DYTONIA

ROPD/ DYT12 (ATP1A3)

AGE OF ONSET 4- 55 YRS

DYSTONIA WITH PARKINSONISM OVER DAYS TO WEEKS

ABRUPT ONSET THEN STABILIZES  

MILD IMPROVEMENT POSSIBLE

TRIGGER: FEVER/ STRESS/ ALCOHOL

RX: POOR LEVODOPA RESPONSE

PAROXYSMAL

GLUT1 (SLC2A1)

CHILD - ADULT ONSET

MUTATION IN SLC2A1 (90%)

PAROXYSMAL/ FIXED

PED/ PNKD/ EPISODIC ATAXIA

RESISTANT EPILEPSY/ MR

DYSTONIA/ ATAXIA
CRISS CROSS GAIT/ SPASTICITY 

WEAKNESS/HEADACHE/ VOMITING

TRIGGERS: FAST/INFECTIONS

VITAMIN DEFECTS

BT-BGD (SLC19A3)

<6Y  : INFANTILE SPASM

6-15 : DYSTONIA/ ATAXIA/ CHOREA

>15   : WERNICKE-LIKE PHENOTYPE

AUTOIMMUNE

NMDA ENCEPHALITIS

OTHER

PERRY
VSGP/ HYPOVENTILATION

CHEDIAK HIGASHI (LYST)

AGE OF ONSET 20-40YRS

LYSOSOMAL TRAFFIC REGULATOR PROTEIN

ALBINISM/ INFECTIONS/ BLEEDING/

PARTIAL ALBINISM/ OCULAR ALBINISM

PARKINSONISM/ DYSTONIA/ ATAXIA/ NEUROPATHY

RETT SYNDROME (MECPS)

FEMALES AFFECTED MORE

CHOREA/ AUTISMSTEREOTYPE

HAND WRIGGING/ CLAPPING/ RUBBING

MICROCEPHALY

NORMAL TILL 6-18 MONTHS

HYPERVENTILATION

MIDBRAIN/BG INFARCTS

PRIMARY BLEPHAROSPASM

NONE OF THESE GENES CAUSE PURE BLEPHAROSPASM

GNAL

CIZ1

TOR1A

ANO3

TUBB4A

DRD5 (DOPAMINE RECEPTOR TYPE D5)

 

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LOWER LIMB ONSET  

DYT1 (TORIA)

AGE OF ONSET: 4-64 YRS

INITIALLY ACTION SPECIFIC DYSTONIA

LATER: REST DYSTONIA

WALKING/ WRITING

START IN THE LEG AND THEN INVOLVE THE ARMS

FOOT INVERSION/ EVERSION

KNEE/ HIP FLEXION

DYSTONIC LEG / ARM TREMOR

PHENOTYPES:

BLEPHAROSPASM

WRITER'S CRAMP (LATE-ONSET DYT1)

FOCAL DYSTONIA IN 20%

FLUCTUATING UNILATERAL DYSTONIA MYOCLONUS

GENERALIZED DYSTONIA

GTPCH1 (AD) 

CAN PRESENT AT LATER AGE

EARLY ONSET FOOT DYSTONIA (EQUINOVARUS)

OCCASIONALLY, UL DYSTONIA/ TREMOR

LATER PARKINSONISM WITH POSTURAL TREMOR

OCD/ SPASTICITY/ SCOLIOSIS

DIURNAL FLUCTUATIONS

PHENOTYPES:

BENIGN PARKINSONISM

FOOT DYSTONIA

MYOCLONUS DYSTONIA

SPASTIC PARAPARESIS

RX: EXCELLENT RESPONSE TO LEVODOPA 

DYT16 (PRKRA)

DYSTONIA/ PARKINSONISM

PROMINENT BULBAR

RX: GPI DBS MAY BE USEFUL

KMT2B

MEAN AGE OF ONSET 7 YRS

LOWER LIMB ONSET/ GENERALIZED

PROMINENT OMD AND CERVICAL DYSTONIA/OPISTHOTONUS

MENTAL RETARDATION

SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS

ELONGATED FACE/ BULBOUS NASAL TIP

MISSENSE VARIANT—LATE PRESENTATION

RX: DBS USEFUL

ACERULOPLASMINEMIA 

AGE OF ONSET 30-70YRS

OROFACIAL DYSTONIA/ CERVICAL DYSTONIA

COGNITIVE DECLINE/ ATAXIA

DIABETES MELLITUS/ LIVER DYSFUNCTION

RETINAL DEGENERATION

LAB: ABSENT CERULOPLASMIN

HETEROZYGOUS: MODERATELY REDUCED LEVEL

INCREASED FERRITIN

RX: DEFERIPRONE STARTING DOSE 15MG/KG/DAY

TWO DIVIDED DOSES

CAN TITRATE TO  MAX 50MG/KG/DAY

PHLEBOTOMY 300ML EVERY 15 DAYS

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BRUXISM (DYSTONIA/ AKATHISIA)

ANTI DOPAMINERGIC

SNRI

 

SSRI

YOUNG CERVICAL DYSTONIA 

DYT6 (THAP1)

AGE OF ONSET 5-38YRS

NECK AND UPPER LIMB DYSTONIA UPPER LIMB TREMOR

DYSPHONIA

DYT23 (CIZ1)

CERVICAL DYSTONIA

NECK TREMOR

ESSENTIAL TREMOR PHENOTYPE

DYT24 (ANO3)

ESSENTIAL TREMOR PHENOTYPE

CRANIOCERVICAL DYSTONIA

FAST MYOCLONUS

DYT25 (GNAL)  

AGE OF ONSET 7-54 YRS

CERVICAL/ CRANIAL DYSTONIA

OROMANDIBULAR/ LARYNX

TREMOR

ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIS

CERVICAL DYSTONIA

RX: LEVODOPA

KMT2B

MEAN AGE OF ONSET 7 YRS

LOWER LIMB ONSET/ GENERALIZED

PROMINENT OMD AND CERVICAL DYSTONIA/OPHISTOTONUS

MENTAL RETARDATION

SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS

ELONGATED FACE/ BULBOUS NASAL TIP

MISSENSE VARIANT—LATE PRESENTATION

RX: DBS USEFU

ATAXIA WITH VITAMIN E DEFICIENCY (TTPA)

VIT-E DEFICIENCY

TITUBATION

ATAXIA/ PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY

RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA/ MACULAR ATROPHY

GENERALISED DYSTONIA

PRIMARY DYSTONIA

DYT1 (TORIA)

AGE OF ONSET: 4-64 YRS

INITIALLY ACTION SPECIFIC DYSTONIA

LATER: REST DYSTONIA

WALKING/ WRITING

START IN THE LEG AND THEN INVOLVE THE ARMS

FOOT INVERSION/ EVERSION

KNEE/ HIP FLEXION

DYSTONIC LEG / ARM TREMOR

PHENOTYPES:

BLEPHAROSPASM

WRITER'S CRAMP (LATE ONSET DYT1)

FOCAL DYSTONIA IN 20%

GENERALIZED DYSTONIA

DYT3 (TAF1)

PARKINSONISM

ONLY MALES AFFECTED

X-LINKED RECESSIVE

JAW AND NECK DYSTONIA COMMON

LATER BECOME GENERALIZED

UL DYSTONIA (LESS COMMON)

DYT16 (PRKRA)

PROMINENT BULBAR

BECOMES GENERALIZED

KMT2B

MEAN AGE OF ONSET 7 YRS

LOWER LIMB ONSET/ GENERALIZED

PROMINENT OMD AND CERVICAL DYSTONIA/OPISTHOTONUS

MENTAL RETARDATION

SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS

ELONGATED FACE/ BULBOUS NASAL TIP

MISSENSE VARIANT—LATE PRESENTATION

RX: DBS USEFUL

DYT6 (THAP1)

NECK AND UPPER LIMB DYSTONIA WITH TREMOR

CAN BECOME GENERALIZED

BIOAMINE DEFECTS

GTPCH1 (AR)

PRESENTATION IN INFANCY

SEIZURES/ INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY

TRUNCAL HYPOTONIA/ LIMB HYPERTONIA

RX: RESPONSIVE TO HIGH-DOSE LEVODOPA

GTPCH1 (AD) 

CAN PRESENT AT LATER AGE

EARLY ONSET FOOT DYSTONIA (EQUINOVARUS)

OCCASIONALLY, UL DYSTONIA/ TREMOR

LATER PARKINSONISM WITH POSTURAL TREMOR

OCD/ SPASTICITY/ SCOLIOSIS

DIURNAL FLUCTUATIONS

PHENOTYPES:

BENIGN PARKINSONISM

FOOT DYSTONIA

MYOCLONUS DYSTONIA

SPASTIC PARAPARESIS

RX: EXCELLENT RESPONSE TO LEVODOPA 

 

TYROSINE HYDROXYLASE - TYPE A

CEREBRAL PALSY/ JUVENILE PARKINSONISM

OGC/ UPPER LIMB DYSTONIA

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION

RX: GOOD LEVODOPA RESPONSE 

TYROSINE HYDROXYLASE - TYPE B

TREMOR/ PTOSISMENTAL RETARDATION

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION

HYPOTONIA/ DELAYED MILESTONES

RX: GOOD LEVODOPA RESPONSE 

BRAIN MINERALIZATION DISORDERS

PKAN (PANK2) 

TYPICAL PKAN:

AGE OF ONSET <12YRS

DYSARTHRIA/ DYSTONIA/ OPISTHOTONUS

PRAYING MANTIS SIGN/ CHOREA

PARKINSONISM/ SPASTICITY/ OPTIC ATROPHY

RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA (25%)

ACANTHOCYTES (8%)

ATYPICAL PKAN:

EARLY CHILDHOOD TO LATE ADULTHOOD

SLOWER PROGRESSION

NEUROPSYCHIATRIC MANIFESTATIONS

OCD/ IMPULSIVITY/ DEPRESSION

PALILALIA/ TICS

CAN MIMIC JUVENILE PARKINSONISM

CAN MIMIC TOURETTE SYNDROME

RX: DEFERIPRONE 30MG/KG/DAY

MAY BE USEFUL (MIXED RESULTS)

DBS MAY BE USEFUL

PLAN (PLA2G6)

DYSTONIA/ PARKINSONISM

ATAXIA/ SPASTICITY

LEVODOPA-INDUCED EARLY DYSKINESIA

INVOLVING LOWER FACE

TRUNCAL DYSTONIA

PHENOTYPES:

DYSTONIA PARKINSONISM

SPASTIC PARAPARESIS

CEREBELLAR ATAXIA

RX: LEVODOPA PARTIALLY RESPONSIVE

FAHN/ SPG35  

SPASTICITY/ DYSTONIA

OPTIC ATROPHY

COGNITION/ EPILEPSY/ VSGP

MRI: BRAIN STEM ATROPHY

MPAN  

DYSTONIA/ PARKINSONISM

SPASTICITY

BILATERAL OPTIC ATROPHY

AXONAL NEUROPATHY

SENDA (BPAN) (WDR45)  

BIPHASIC CLINICAL PROFILE

CHILDHOOD-ONSET:

COGNITIVE DECLINE/RETT-LIKE PHENOTYPE

AUTISM/ STEREOTYPE/ SEIZURES

ADOLESCENCE OR ADULTHOOD ONSET:

SPASTICITY/ PARKINSONISM/ DYSTONIA

OTHER FEATURES:

SEIZURES/ LENNOX GESTAUT SYNDROME

BILATERAL OPTIC ATROPHY

RX: LEVODOPA PARTIALLY RESPONSIVE

COPAN (COASY)

SLOWLY PROGRESSIVE

DYSTONIA/ PARKINSONISM

SPASTICITY/ AXONAL NEUROPATHY

EYE OF TIGER SIGN 

VAC14

CHILDHOOD- ADOLESCENCE 

COGNITION

FOCAL DYSTONIA/ PARKINSONISM

ATAXIA/ SPASTICITY

RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA

NEUROFERRITINOPATHY

ORO-MANDIBULAR DYSKINESIA (85%)

JAW DYSTONIA/ BLEPHAROSPASM

FOCAL LOWER LIMB CHOREA /DYSTONIA 

ACUTE BALLISMUS 

LESS COMMON: ATAXIA/ PARKINSONISM/ TICS/TREMOR

LIP-SMACKING/ WRITER'S CRAMP

FRONTAL SUBCORTICAL COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION

ACERULOPLASMINEMIA 

AGE OF ONSET 30-70YRS

OROFACIAL DYSTONIA/ CERVICAL DYSTONIA

COGNITIVE DECLINE/ ATAXIA/ TREMOR/ CHOREA

PARKINSONISM (20%)

DIABETES MELLITUS/ LIVER DYSFUNCTION

RETINAL DEGENERATION

LAB: ABSENT CERULOPLASMIN

HETEROZYGOUS: MODERATELY REDUCED LEVEL

INCREASED FERRITIN

RX: DEFERIPRONE STARTING DOSE 15MG/KG/DAY

TWO DIVIDED DOSES

CAN TITRATE TO MAX 50MG/KG/DAY

PHLEBOTOMY 300ML EVERY 15 DAYS

WOODHOUSE SAKATI SYNDROME (DCAF17)

SPECTRUM: RAPIDLY DISABLING TO MILD SYMPTOMS

COGNITIVE DECLINE

DEAFNESS/ DYSTONIA

PARKINSONISM/ ATAXIA

ALOPECIA./ DIABETES/ HYPOGONADISM

TRIANGULAR FACE/ HYPERTELORISM

KUFOR RAKEB SYNDROME (ATP13A2) 

PARK9/ SPG78

COGNITION/ PARKINSONISM/ VSGP

VISUAL HALLUCINATION

LEVODOPA-INDUCED DYSKINESIA

OCULOGYRIC CRISIS

FACIAL-FAUCIAL-FINGER-MYOCLONUS

SPG78: LATE SPASTICITY WITHOUT PARKINSONISM

FAHR'S SYNDROME

NEUROPSYCHIATRIC/ SEIZURES/ HEADACHE

PARKINSONISM/ DYSTONIA/ CHOREA

ATAXIA/ TREMOR

SLC20A2

COGNITION/ HEADACHE/ SEIZURES

PARKINSONISM

PDGFB

COGNITION/ HEADACHE/ SEIZURES

PARKINSONISM/ ATAXIA/ CHOREA

PDGFRB

COGNITION/ HEADACHE/ SEIZURES

PARKINSONISM

XPR1

COGNITION/ HEADACHE

PARKINSONISM/ ATAXIA

MYORG

COGNITION/ PARKINSONISM/ ATAXIA

JAM2

COGNITION/ PARKINSONISM/ ATAXIA/ DYSTONIA

MRI: CALCIFICATION

BG/ THALAMUS/ CEREBELLUM/ WM

MYORG: CENTRAL PONS CALCIFICATION

YOUNG WRITERS CRAMP 

DYT1 (TORIA)

AGE OF ONSET: 4-64 YRS

INITIALLY ACTION SPECIFIC DYSTONIA

LATER: REST DYSTONIA

WALKING/ WRITING

START IN THE LEG AND THEN INVOLVE THE ARMS

FOOT INVERSION/ EVERSION

KNEE/ HIP FLEXION

DYSTONIC LEG / ARM TREMOR

PHENOTYPES:

BLEPHAROSPASM

WRITER'S CRAMP (LATE-ONSET DYT1)

FOCAL DYSTONIA IN 20%

FLUCTUATING UNILATERAL DYSTONIA MYOCLONUS

GENERALIZED DYSTONIA

DYT3 (TAF1)

PARKINSONISM

ONLY MALES AFFECTED

X-LINKED RECESSIVE

JAW AND NECK DYSTONIA COMMON

LATER BECOME GENERALIZED

UL DYSTONIA (LESS COMMON)

DYT11 (SGCE)

AGE OF ONSET <20 YRS

HEAD/ ARM/ UPPER BODY MYOCLONUS

OCD/ ANXIETY

RX: CLONAZEPAM/ VALPROIC ACID

TRIHEXYPHENIDYL

THALAMIC DBS

GM1 GANGLIOSIDOSIS

TYPE 1  (INFANTILE) 

COGNITION/ SEIZURES

CORNEAL OPACITY

TYPE 2 (JUVENILE)

COGNITION/ DYSTONIA

ORGANOMEGALY/ CHERRY RED SPOT

TYPE 3 (ADULT)

DYSTONIA/ SPINAL BONY ABNORMALITY

ANGIOKERATOMA (TRUNK)

LIKE IN FABRY'S DISEASE

GLUT1 (SLC2A1)  

CHILD - ADULT-ONSET

PAROXYSMAL/ FIXED

PED/ PNKD/ EPISODIC ATAXIA

RESISTANT EPILEPSY/ MR

DYSTONIA/ ATAXIA
CRISS CROSS GAIT/ SPASTICITY 

L2-HYDROXY-GLUTARIC ACIDURIA

MACROCEPHALY

HIGH RISK OF MALIGNANCY

SPASTICITY/ ATAXIA/ DYSTONIA

PARKINSONISM

MRI: HYPERINTENSITY (T2/ FLAIR)

CAUDATE/ PUTAMEN

GLOBUS PALLIDUS/ DENTATE 

CENTRIPETAL WHITE MATTER

U-FIBRE INVOLVED FIRST

CEREBELLAR WHITE MATTER

MACROCEPHALY

ABNORMAL DAT SCAN

RX: LEVODOPA/ RIBOFLAVIN

CAN PRESENT AS WRITERS CRAMP

 

COQ10 DEFICIENCY (ADCK3/ARCA2)
ATAXIA/DYSTONIA

NEUROFERRITINOPATHY

ORO-MANDIBULAR DYSKINESIA (85%)

JAW DYSTONIA/ BLEPHAROSPASM

FOCAL LOWER LIMB CHOREA /DYSTONIA 

ACUTE BALLISMUS 

LESS COMMON: ATAXIA/ PARKINSONISM/ TICS/TREMOR

RARELY: WRITER'S CRAMP

LIP-SMACKING/ WRITER'S CRAMP

FRONTAL SUBCORTICAL COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION

DYSTONIC TREMOR UPPER LIMBS

DYT6 (THAP1)

AGE OF ONSET 5-38YRS

NECK AND UPPER LIMB DYSTONIA UPPER LIMB TREMOR

DYSPHONIA

DYT23 (CIZ1)

CERVICAL DYSTONIA

NECK TREMOR

ESSENTIAL TREMOR PHENOTYPE

DYT24 (ANO3)

ESSENTIAL TREMOR PHENOTYPE

CRANIOCERVICAL DYSTONIA

FAST MYOCLONUS

DYT25 (GNAL)  

AGE OF ONSET 7-54 YRS

CERVICAL/ CRANIAL DYSTONIA

OROMANDIBULAR/ LARYNX

TREMOR

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