Movement Disorder

Description of Support

LINKS

General Movement Disorders

    We Move - A site dedicated to worldwide education and awareness of movement disorders

www.wemove.org

Parkinson's Disease

    Parkinson Society Canada

    This is our National Parkinson's organization.  The site includes links to supports to each province

www.parkinson.ca

    National Parkinson Foundation This highly recommended site contains many patient directed publications that can be ordered free and a ask the Doctor line, ask the dietician line  as well as a maintained "What's Hot" in PD site

www.parkinson.org

    Parkinson's Disease Foundation

www.pdf.org

    American Parkinson Disease Association

www.apdaparkinson.org

    The Parkinson's Alliance

www.parkinsonalliance.net

    People living with Parkinson's

www.plwp.org

    Genetic information about Parkinson's - genetest.org

www.genetests.org

Parkinson's "Plus"

    PSP NIH information page and resource links

www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/psp/ psp.htm

    PSP - Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

www.psp.org

    MSA - Multiple System Atrophy NIH information page

www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/msa/ msa.htm

    MSA - Multiple System Atrophy

www.shy-drager.org

    Corticobasal Degeneration - NIH information page

www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/cortic obasal_degeneration/corticobasal_d egeneration.htm

    Dementia with Lewy bodies - NIH information page

www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/deme ntiawithlewybodies/dementiawithle wybodies.htm

Tremor

    International Essential Tremor Foundation

www.essentialtremor.org   

    Essential Tremor - NIH information page

www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/essen tial_tremor/essential_tremor.htm

Dystonia

    Canadian National Organization

www.dystoniacanada.org

    Dystonia - NIH information page

www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/dysto nias/dystonias.htm

    USA - Dystonia Foundation

www.dystonia-foundation.org

    Blepharospasm - Canadian Research Foundation Inc.

www.blepharospasm.ca

    Blepharospasm  Research Foundation, Inc.

www.blepharospasm.org

    National Spasmodic Dysphonia Association

www.dysphonia.org

    A discussion of the different forms of dystonia

www.dystonia-foundation.org/pages /forms_of_dystonia/41.php

    A  review of inherited dystonias -  genetest.org

www.genetests.org

Tics / Tourette's

    Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada

    The site includes links to supports to each province

www.tourette.ca

    Tourette Syndrome Association

www.tsa-usa.org

    Tourette Syndrome "Plus"

www.tourettesyndrome.net

    Tourette's Syndrome Fact Sheet from NIH

www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/toure tte/detail_tourette.htm

Huntington's Disease

    Huntington Society of Canada

www.hsc-ca.org

    Huntington's Study Group - - Current research efforts

www.huntington-study-group.org

    Huntington's Disease Society of America

www.hdsa.org

    Huntington's Disease - NIH information page

www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/hunti ngton/huntington.htm

    Huntington's at genetest.org

www.genetests.org

Neuroacanthocytosis

    Neuroacanthocytosis - NIH information page

www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/neuro acanthocytosis/neuroacanthocytosis .htm

    Chorea acanthocytosis - genetest.org

www.genetests.org

Other Choreas

    Chorea - NIH information page

www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/chore a/chorea.htm

Restless Leg Syndrome

    US RLS site

www.rls.org

    RLS -  NIH information page

www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/restle ss_legs/restless_legs.htm

Myoclonus

    Myoclonus - NIH information page

www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/myocl onus/myoclonus.htm  

    Myoclonus dystonia info at genetest.org

www.genetests.org

Ataxias

    USA National Ataxia Foundation

www.ataxia.org

    Classifications of Ataxias

www.neuro.wustl.edu/neuromuscula r/ataxia/aindex.html

    Ataxia -- NIH information page

www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/ataxia /ataxia.htm

    Hereditary ataxias at genetests.org

http://www.genetests.org

Wilson's Disease

    USA - The Wilson's Disease Association

www.wilsonsdisease.org

    Wilson's disease at genetests.org

www.genetests.org

Other Movement Disorders

    You can look under specific disorders at the NIH site

www.ninds.nih.gov/index.htm

 
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