Kinesis Paradoxica

Kinesis Paradoxica

Kinesis paradoxica is the brief but remarkably rapid and effective movement sometimes observed in patients with Parkinson’s disease or post-encephalitic parkinsonism, despite the poverty and slowness of spontaneous movement (akinesia, Hypokinesia; bradykinesia) seen in these conditions. It often occurs in response to alarm, excitement or emotion (e.g., in response to a genuinely funny joke).

Cross References

Akinesia; Bradykinesia; Hypokinesia; Parkinsonism