Sentence examples for uncontrollable movements from inspiring English sources

In essential tremor, the electrode is inserted in the thalamus, where it disrupts the neuronal impulses that cause uncontrollable movements.

It is a muscular restlessness that will one day — this is Perowne's considered opinion — become athetoid, plagued by involuntary, uncontrollable movements.

But later five patients who had received transplants began experiencing severe side effects: uncontrollable movements, with swinging and writhing of their arms and jerking of their heads.

While my vocal tics present problems of their own, the uncontrollable movements I make have the biggest impact on my life.

Dr. Paul E. Greene, a neurologist at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and a researcher in the study, said the uncontrollable movements some patients suffered were "absolutely devastating".

Detainees are also apparently given an anti-nausea drug called Reglan, which has a horrible potential side effect if given for more than three months: a disease called tardive dyskinesia, which causes twitching and other uncontrollable movements.

"When we used to address groups of Parkinson's patients years ago, they were a mass of uncontrollable movement, jerking and waving their hands and arms.

Current medicines can control symptoms, but they cannot stop the disease from worsening, and they can produce side effects like uncontrollable movement.

She had been struck not with Tourette's but with a host of symptoms that resembled it: facial tics, uncontrollable movement, stuttering, verbal outbursts.

Though this may sound like the equivalent of Vargas Llosa's own alternations and narrative shifts — the station manager objects to Camacho's "modernist gimmicks" — Camacho's transitions are a matter not of painstaking design but of manic, uncontrollable movement, suggestive of the whirligig that art, life, and the subconscious all ride together.

But what caused the hiccups that the medication was given to treat? 6. Ferrante, for his part, knew that the uncontrollable movement of the patient's arms and legs were consistent with a condition known as akathisia, a usually transient disorder that can be seen after taking Thorazine and other antipsychotic medicines.