Congenital mirror movements: from piano player to opera singer
A Méneret, Q Welniarz, O Trouillard, E Roze - Neurology, 2015 - AAN Enterprises
A Méneret, Q Welniarz, O Trouillard, E Roze
Neurology, 2015•AAN EnterprisesCongenital mirror movements (CMM) disorder is characterized by involuntary movements of
one side of the body that accompany and mirror intentional movements on the opposite side
(OMIM# 157600). 1 CMM mostly involve the hands, and affected subjects are unable to
perform pure unimanual movements or skilled dissociated movements of the 2 hands. We
show a 33-year-old patient with CMM with no abnormality in DCC or RAD51, the known
culprit genes (video on the Neurology® Web site at Neurology. org). 2 He had always …
one side of the body that accompany and mirror intentional movements on the opposite side
(OMIM# 157600). 1 CMM mostly involve the hands, and affected subjects are unable to
perform pure unimanual movements or skilled dissociated movements of the 2 hands. We
show a 33-year-old patient with CMM with no abnormality in DCC or RAD51, the known
culprit genes (video on the Neurology® Web site at Neurology. org). 2 He had always …
Congenital mirror movements (CMM) disorder is characterized by involuntary movements of one side of the body that accompany and mirror intentional movements on the opposite side (OMIM #157600).1 CMM mostly involve the hands, and affected subjects are unable to perform pure unimanual movements or skilled dissociated movements of the 2 hands. We show a 33-year-old patient with CMM with no abnormality in DCC or RAD51, the known culprit genes (video on the Neurology® Web site at Neurology.org).2 He had always dreamed of becoming a piano player but was unable to play properly with both hands despite intensive training. He became an opera singer instead.
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