Steven J. Frucht - Movement Disorder Emergencies: Diagnosis and Treatment

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Fifteen years have passed since the publication of the first edition of Movement Disorder Emergencies. In this time, what first seemed an unusual and esoteric topic has become mainstream. Teaching courses on movement disorder emergencies are a regular feature of the American Academy of Neurology and International Movement Disorders Congress annual meetings, and the literature devoted to these rare but important topics has significantly grown.

In this third edition, all of the chapters have been revised and updated, and a number of new authors were added based on their expertise. We modified the organization of the chapters to better serve the practicing clinician, beginning with a practical approach to the patient, hyperacute emergencies, acute emergencies, emergencies of recognition (diagnostic pitfalls), and practical risks in the clinic (pitfalls in management). Key teaching points (shown with a key) and important lessons (shown with a lightning bolt) appear throughout each chapter. As before, videos are an indispensable resource, and the video segments accompanying 20 of the chapters have been expanded and are now available online. New chapters have been added, including discussion of the approach to the movement disorders patient in the emergency room and intensive care unit, neuro-ophthalmologic evaluation in movement disorders, posthypoxic myoclonus, X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy, and an unusual presentation of Wilsons disease.

We wish to thank Diane Lamsback for her enthusiasm, meticulous attention to detail, and indispensable effort in bringing this latest edition to fruition. We also thank the patients and their families who generously gave permission for publication of their videos. Finally, three young co-authors died tragically between the publication of the second edition and the present version. Dr. Jessica Panzer, Dr. Daniel Schneider, and Dr. John Lynch were highly skilled, compassionate clinicians whose contributions to patient care, education, and research will be sorely missed.

We dedicate this third edition to their memory.

Welcome to the third edition of Movement Disorders Emergencies. Diagnosis and Treatment edited by Steven J. Frucht. The first and second editions were published by Springer in 2005 and 2013, respectively, and have been very well received. Both filled an important niche in the knowledge base of clinical neurologists who see most of their patients in the outpatient clinic or hospital emergency room.

The number of chapters has increased from 20 to 28 between the first two editions to 32 chapters in this new third edition. All previous chapters have been updated and revised, and important teaching points have been highlighted in many of the chapters. Patient videos continue to be available on the Springer website for nearly all of the chapters. New chapters by new authors which have been added in this volume include Neuro-ophthalmologic Evaluation in Movement Disorders, Movement Disorder Emergencies of the Upper Aerodigestive Tract, Posthypoxic Myoclonus and its Management, Tic Emergencies, Coprolalia and Malignant Phonic Tics, Startle Disorders, Functional Movement Disorders, X-linked Adrenoleukodystrophy, and Genetics and Genetic Counseling.

As previously emphasized by Dr. Frucht, emergencies have not only been defined in these volumes by the acute and serious nature of the disorders being described but also by the extreme rarity of many of these disorders which usually and even typically delays diagnosis and often regrettably results in a diagnosis of psychogenic or functional movement disorder born largely out of ignorance and lack of experience in the clinician asked to make a diagnosis in such cases. Once again, the neurologic community at all levels owes a large debt of gratitude to Dr. Frucht for his diligence in continuing to bring this topic to the attention of all of us.