Treatment of myoclonus focuses on medications that may help reduce symptoms. The drug of first choice to treat myoclonus, especially certain types of action myoclonus, is clonazepam, a type of ...

Opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome is a very rare neurological disease that breaks down the autoimmune process which involves the nervous system. Even though OMS can develop at any age, it mostly involves ...

Etomidate is widely used for induction in general anaesthesia due to its stability in haemodynamics and rapid onset of action. However, its use is frequently complicated by the occurrence of myoclonus ...

A randomised crossover trial shows that zonisamide significantly improves motor symptoms and related disability in adults with myoclonus dystonia. Myoclonus dystonia is very rare, and Marie Vidailhet ...

Yasmina McGlone, 25, suffers from involuntary muscle spasms – myoclonus dystonia (Picture: Caters) A woman who has lived with a debilitating involuntary jerk since she was a child has revealed how she ...

Dementia is a syndrome of ongoing brain decline, beyond what can be expected as a result of old age. The condition is often recognised when signs of pronounced memory loss emerge. There are, however, ...

Lafora progressive myoclonus epilepsy, also known as Lafora disease (LD), is the most severe and fatal form of progressive myoclonus epilepsy with its typical onset during the late childhood or early ...