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Sydenham's chorea
M J Marques-Dias1, M T Mercadante, D Tucker
1Pediatric Department, São Paulo University Medical School, Brazil.
The Psychiatric Clinics of North America
|January 27, 1998
Abstract:
Sydenham's chorea (SC) is a disorder of the central nervous system (CNS) characterized by sudden, involuntary, arrhythmic, clonic, and purposeless movements. SC appears to provide a model for understanding various neuropsychiatric dysfunctions. Its relationship with attentional deficits, obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS) as well as movement disorders provides support for the hypothesis of the involvement of the corticostriatal loops in the pathophysiology of the disorder.