Jamir Pitton Rissardo
MD 🇧🇷 @UFSM_oficial @CooperNeuroRes | Neurology 🧠 | Writer ✍️ | Reviewer | Illustrator | Guitarist ♬🎸 World J Clin Cases editorial board member.
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Clonus - The maximum hyperexcitability! “rhythmic involuntary muscular contractions induced by the sudden passive stretching of a muscle or tendon” - hyperactive DTR (4+) #MedTw...
The dysfunctional little brain!!! Part I “regulates ‘rate, range, and force’ of movement” Irish neurologist Gordon Morgan Holmes (1876–1965) #MedTwitter #neurotwitter #EndNeurop...
Through the eyes!!! “ocular reflexes are the simplest ocular motor responses” German psychiatrist Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833–1890) #MedTwitter #neurotwitter #EndNeuropho...
The arcane superficial reflex!!! “response to stimulation of either the skin or mucous membrane” - polysynaptic, slow, longer latency, easily fatigable - abolished by pyramidal t...
@MichaelOkun @AnaCaprara @grepmeded @AvrahamCooperMD @DxRxEdu @Sthanu5 @MohamedEDEMBELE @DrJC_08 @AaronGoodman33 @BrownHospMed @NicoGagelmann Thank you, Dr. Michael Okun @MichaelOk...
The Sound of Footsteps!!! “it's possible to learn more about neurologic status from watching a patient walk than from any other single procedure” Russell Nelson DeJong (1907-1990...
Hoffmann and his Assistant!!! “upper limb equivalent of the Babinski sign test” - hyperreflexia - cervical cord #MedTwitter #neurotwitter #EndNeurophobia 1/ https://t.co/Ji8ap...
Babinski and Friends!!! “Loss of descending pyramidal control of the reflex arc to suppress extensor withdrawal results in the upgoing toes in the plantar reflex known as Babinsk...
Movement Disorders – Dystonia (Writer's cramp) “abnormal postures and muscle spasms interfering in writing motor performance” - Most freq focal, task-specific dystonia. - Managed...
@SSNeuroMD @a_charidimou @AnaCaprara @Neurobolts @Sthanu5 @ludyshihmd @estmannmd @grepmeded @CyChuan @bobvarkey @LobjanidzeNino Thank you, Dr. Sara Schaefer. Interesting modules; I...
Movement Disorders - Ballism “chorea that affects proximal joints such as shoulder or hip” Mov Disord Society, 2011 - Freq causes: vascular and metabolic - Good response to ant...
Paroxysmal Movement Disorders! Dyskinesias!!! - 4 groups, overlap - Prevalence: 1/150 000 - Myoclonus, dystonia, chorea, athetosis, tics #MedTwitter #neurotwitter #EndNeurophobi...