| 41. | Chorea is a continuous, random-appearing sequence of one or more discrete involuntary movements or movement fragments.
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| 42. | Sydenham's chorea epidemic was first documented in 1418 and later in 1686 Thomas Sydenham described the condition.
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| 43. | Suppose, for example, that we all had some equivalent of Huntington's chorea locked in our genes.
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| 44. | These'dance-like'movements of chorea often occur with athetosis, which adds twisting and writhing movements.
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| 45. | Strikingly, many people with chorea acanthocytosis uncontrollably bite their tongue, lips, and the inside of the mouth.
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| 46. | Devic performed research of numerous neurological disorders, including infantile chorea, cerebral glioma and tumors of the corpus callosum.
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| 47. | Twenty percent ( 20 % ) of children and adolescents with rheumatic fever develop Sydenham's chorea as a complication.
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| 48. | Chorea-acanthocytosis is considered an autosomal recessive disorder, although a few cases with autosomal dominant inheritance have been noted.
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| 49. | The'core'neuroacanthocytosis syndromes, in which acanthocytes are a typical feature, are chorea acanthocytosis and McLeod syndrome.
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| 50. | Mrs . Guthrie was instrumental in creating the World Federation of Neurology's Research Commission on Huntington's Chorea.
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