2005/09/30 by Joel A. Vilensky, Christopher G. Goetz, Sid Gilman · 2 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Medicine · Psychology · #RNA regulation and disease #Infectious Encephalopathies and Encephalitis #Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments #Parkinsonism #Movement disorders #Encephalitis #Physical medicine and rehabilitation #Medicine #Movement (music) #Psychology #Psychiatry #Disease #Pathology #Art #Virology
paper · doi:10.1002/mds.20722
openalex publication_date 2005/09/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
Encephalitis lethargica (EL; epidemic encephalitis; von Economo's disease) often presented with a movement disorder, and the motor consequences of postencephalitic parkinsonism (PEP) were characteristic of the chronic sequelae of this condition. PEP was similar to Parkinson's disease but was more variable and had some distinct features such as oculogyric crises. Although two previous publications have included video images of the movement disorders associated with EL and PEP, the sequences presented were typically short, showed only a few patients, and did not include the work of several neurologists who had the foresight to preserve filmed images of their patients. We describe the most complete record of EL and PEP moving images that have been preserved and make them available in edited form.