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Brain, Vol. 126, No. 3, 749-750, March 2003
© 2003 Guarantors of Brain
doi: 10.1093/brain/awg049

Book Review

ADVANCES IN NEUROLOGY, VOL. 89: MYOCLONUS AND PAROXYSMAL DYSKINESIAS

M. C. Prevett

Wessex Neurological Centre, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK

ADVANCES IN NEUROLOGY, VOL. 89: MYOCLONUS AND PAROXYSMAL DYSKINESIAS
Edited by Stanley Fahn, Steven J. Frucht, Mark Hallett and Daniel D. Truong
2002. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Price £130. pp. 528. ISBN 0781737591.

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This book is the product of a symposium held in Atlanta in October 2000. The symposium was planned as tribute to the late C. David Marsden and the book is dedicated to his memory. It comprises 43 chapters with contributions from almost 100 authors and represents a comprehensive review of the subject and recent developments.

Myoclonus, defined as sudden, brief, shock-like involuntary movement caused by muscular contraction or inhibition, can arise from any level of the nervous system (cerebral cortex, brainstem, spinal cord and peripherally) and is caused by a wide variety of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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