The meaning of DYSKINESIA is impairment of voluntary movements resulting in fragmented or jerky motions (as in Parkinson's disease).
Other movement is reflexive, meaning that conscious thought is not necessary to initiate and/or maintain it. A number of involuntary movement disorders, soヽalled dyskinesias, have been described in companion animals. Although some of these have a striking resemblance to epilepsy, dyskinesias do ...
We propose, and hopefully will demonstrate, that priming does not exist per se but is the direct and intrinsic consequence of the loss of dopamine innervation of the striatum (and other target structures), meaning that the first injections of dopaminergic drugs only exacerbate those mechanisms ( ...