NeuroTeach 7 - Ballism

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 antipsychotics, usually self-limiting



2) First report In 1927 James Purdon Martin Hemichorea resulting from a local lesion of the brain


3) Hemichorea-hemiballismus: nonketotic hyperglycemia

4) Hemiballismus: parietal lobe infarction


5) Hemichorea-hemiballismus: nonketotic hyperglycemia


6) Hemiballismus: lacunar infarct in the right centrum semiovale


7) Bilateral chorea–ballism: hyperthyroidism


8) Hemichorea-hemiballismus: vaccine-Induced


9) Hemichorea-hemiballismus: nonketotic hyperglycemia


10) Hemichorea-hemiballismus: nonketotic hyperglycemia


11) Bilateral ballism: herpes encephalitis with thalamic lesion


12) Hemichorea-hemiballismus: cryptococcal Meningitis


13) Hemichorea-hemiballismus: nonketotic hyperglycemia


14) Hemichorea-hemiballismus: intracranial toxoplasmosis and tuberculosis


15) Bilateral chorea-ballism: after cardiac arrest


16) Bilateral ballism: limb-shaking transient ischemic attacks


17) Hemiballismus: insular and temporal lobe infarct


18) Bilateral ballism: fever-induced


19) Hemichorea-hemiballism: after external ventricular drainage


20) Hemichorea-hemiballismus: diabetic ketoacidosis


21) Hemichorea-hemiballism: CNS tuberculosis


22) Hemiballismus: anti-Yo


23) Hemichorea-hemiballismus: after clipping MCA aneurysm



24) Hemichorea-hemiballism: postoperative stroke


25) Hemichorea-hemiballism: nonketotic hyperglycemia


26) Bilateral chorea-ballismus: nonketotic hyperglycemia


27) Hemiballismus: PCA ischemic stroke


28) Hemichorea-hemiballism: thyrotoxicosis


29) Hemichorea-hemiballism: infarction in subthalamic nucleus


30) Hemiballismus: senile-onset


31) Hemichorea-hemiballism: right insula infarct


32) Hemichorea-hemiballism: probable MCA infarction


33) Hemichorea-hemiballism: nonketotic hyperglycemia


34) Hemichorea-hemiballism: thalamic hemorrhage


35) Chorea-ballism: var familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis


36) Hemiballistic chorea: hemorrhagic infarction in the subthalamic nucleus


37) Hemichorea-hemiballism: diabetic ketoacidosis


38) Ballism: DBS-induced peak-dose ballism


39) Hemichorea-hemiballism: nonketotic hyperglycemia


40) Ballism: chronic hepatic disease


41) Hemichorea-hemiballism: nonketotic hyperglycemia


42) Hemichorea-hemiballismus: AZD1222 vaccination


43) Hemichorea-hemiballism: hyperglycemia


44) Hemiballism: post-stroke nocturnal ballism


45) Hemichorea-hemiballism: multiple sclerosis


46) Hemichoreoathetosis: thalamic hemorrhagic stroke


47) Hemichorea-hemiballism: nonketotic hyperglycemia


48) Hemichorea-hemiballism: nonketotic hyperglycemia


49) Hemiballismus


50) Hemichorea-hemiballism: infarction insular, temporal, and parietal cortex


51) Hemichorea-hemiballism: non-ketotic hyperosmolar state


52) Chorea-ballism: non-ketotic hyperosmolar state