Seizures and movement disorders: phenomenology, diagnostic challenges and therapeutic approaches.

Seizures and movement disorders (MDs) are distinct neurological conditions presenting with abnormal movements. Despite sharing an overlap in phenomenology, these movements have different origins. In order to explore the overlaps and the narrow boundaries between these two conditions, we performed a review of the literature to explore the risk of seizures in MDs. We discussed the mimics and chameleons including MDs that look like seizure (eg, paroxysmal dyskinesia, status dystonicus) and seizures that look like MDs (eg,

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Competing interests: JD reports grants and non-financial support from Euroimmun. RE reports personal fees from TEVA, personal fees from Zambon and from Cambridge University Press. MP reports grants from Epilepsy Foundation, grants and personal fees from GW Pharma, grants and personal fees from SK Life Science, grants from Sage, grants from NIH, personal fees from Astellas and personal fees from Upsher-Smith. DA reports grants from Dravet.ca, grants from Ontario Brain Institute, and grants from McLaughlin Foundation, Eisai and Stoke. AF reports grants, personal fees and non-financial support from AbbVie, grants, personal fees and non-financial support from Boston Scientific, grants, personal fees and non-financial support from Medtronic, grants and personal fees from Sunovion, grants and personal fees from Ipsen, grants from Merz, personal fees from Chiesi, and personal fees from UCB.