Supplementary Table 1 | Examples of clinical thinking in myoclonus
Associated features /Consideration
/ Diagnostic testsOpsoclonus / · Paraneoplastic syndrome
· Postinfectious / · Tumor screening (lung, breast, melanoma, medulloblastoma)
· Viral serology ± anti-neuroleukin antibodies
Epilepsy
· During puberty
· Young-onset epilepsy / · Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
· Progressive myoclonic encephalopathies (epilepsy and cognitive decline, myoclonus); for example, mitochondrial disease, Lafora disease, ceroid lipofuscinosis, DRPLA / · Mutation analysis (research setting)
· EEG, gene mutation analysis, muscle–skin biopsy, lactate
Ataxia / · Spinocerebellar ataxias
· Multiple system atrophy
· Progressive myoclonic ataxia (for example, Unverricht–Lundborg, mitochondrial, DRPLA)
· Metabolic disease (for example celiac disease; Wilson disease) / · Genetic testing
· Gene mutation analysis, muscle biopsy, lactate
· Celiac antibodies, duodenal biopsy; serum copper and caeruloplasmin, slit lamp examination, liver biopsy in some cases
Rapid cognitive decline / · Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease / · Cerebrospinal fluid analysis, EEG, genetic testing, tonsillar biopsy
Dystonia / · Familial myoclonus dystonia (DYT11) / · Gene mutation, family history
Nerve or root lesion / · Peripheral myoclonus / · Electrophysiological studies to establish peripheral lesion
Abbreviation: DRPLA, dentatorubropallidoluysian atrophy.