Movement Inquisitive

About Movement Inquisitive

Movement Inquisitive is a free educational resource for MDS Members. This video quiz introduces patient cases of varying movement disorder types. One new case will be presented each month.

Watch the video and then answer the questions below to test your knowledge of this patient case. A correct answer is denoted by a green box and incorrect answer by a red box.

This project is coordinated by:

Dr. Prashanth (LK) Kukkle, DM
DM (Neurology - NIMHANS) | Fellowship in Movement Disorders (Toronto, ON, Canada)
Consultant Neurologist | Specialist: Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders
Vikram Hospitals - Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Dr. Prashanth may be reached by email at drprashanth.lk@gmail.com

Case 8: One-year-old boy presents
with involuntary movements of head

Contributor: Hrishekesh Kumar, MD, Head, Department of Neurology and Movement Disorders Clinic, Institute of Neurosciences Kolkata, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

A one-year-old boy presented with complaints of involuntary movements (to and fro) of head since the age of 6 months.  The parents also noticed that movements used to decrease when child was attentive or tried to concentrate on something. He did not have any movement during sleep.

Further Reading

1. Reddy OJ, Gafoor JA, Suresh B, Prasad PO. Bobble head doll syndrome: A rare case report. Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences. 2014;9(2):175-177. doi:10.4103/1817-1745.139350.

2. Bhattacharyya KB, Senapati A, Basu S, Bhattacharya S, Ghosh S. Bobble-head doll syndrome: some atypical features with a new lesion and review of the literature. Acta Neurol Scand.2003;108(3):216-20.

3. Benton JW, Nellhaus G, Huttenlocher PR, Ojemann RG, Dodge PR. The bobble-head doll syndrome: Report of a unique truncal tremor associated with third ventricular cyst and hydrocephalus in children. J Neurol. 1966;16:725–9

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