Stereotypical hand movements in 144 subjects with Rett syndrome from the population-based Australian database

• Published in: Movement disorders Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 282 - 288
• Main Authors: Carter, Philippa, Downs, Jenny, Bebbington, Ami, Williams, Simon, Jacoby, Peter, Kaufmann, Walter E., Leonard, Helen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company 15.02.2010; Wiley; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Age Factors; Australia - epidemiology; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Child, Preschool; Community Health Planning; Databases, Factual - statistics & numerical data; Degenerative and inherited degenerative diseases of the nervous system. Leukodystrophies. Prion diseases; Female; genotype; Hand - physiopathology; hand function; Humans; Medical sciences; Methyl-CpG-Binding Protein 2 - genetics; Movement disorders; Mutation - genetics; Neurology; Rett syndrome; Rett Syndrome - complications; Rett Syndrome - genetics; stereotypic movement disorder; Stereotypic Movement Disorder - etiology; Stereotypic Movement Disorder - genetics; Stereotypic Movement Disorder - pathology; Young Adult; Australia; Human; Nervous system diseases; stereotypic movement disorder; Genotype; Hand; Video recording; Genetic disease; Cerebral disorder; Hand function; Central nervous system disease; Rett syndrome; Database; Degenerative disease

Stereotypic hand movements are a feature of Rett Syndrome but few studies have observed their nature systematically. Video data in familiar settings were obtained on subjects (n = 144) identified from an Australian population‐based database. Hand stereotypies were demonstrated by most subjects (94.4...