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, 2015AAN Enterprises
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 …
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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