Muscle disorders and myoclonus.

Roll K - Muscle disorders and myoclonus. The following titles and description is taken from the Institute of Neurology cinefilm catalogue. "Facio-scapulo-humeral dystrophy: A young woman with this condition is shown with illustrations of her facial appearance, her gait and teh wasting of her shulder girdle muscles. Her difficulty in eating, combing her hair, rising from a chair and ascending and descending stairs are also shown (5 min.) / Duchenne muscular dystrophy: Two boys are shown illustrating their gait, rising from a chair and getting up from the floor (3 min.) / Myasthenia gravis: A short clip showing ptosis and eye movements before and after tensilon (3 min.) / Myoclonus: At the age of 56 years this woman noticed that when the bus conductor dropped change in her hand, it jerked. The trouble developed into a wide variety of stimuli (photo flash, noise, taps) caused by myoclonus all of which are well illustrated in the film. As she had no other signs it was labelled benign myoclonus which belied the severity of the handicap as the sequence of her eating clearly shows (4.5 min.) / Myoclonus: Three patients with myoclonus are shown including response to action and to startle (6.5 min.) / Myoclonus: The film illustrates myoclonus, its response to action and startle and its involvement of many parts of the body (3.5 min.) / Palatal myoclonus: A short clip showing myoclonus of the soft palate in two patients in whom it was an isolated phenomenon and one in which it was associated with myoclonus of the larynx and tongue (2.5 min.)"