Table 1. Movement Disorders after Stroke.

Movement Disorder	Acute or Delayed Onset	Localization	Therapy
Ballism/chorea	Acute	STn, caudate, putamen, thalamus	Dopamine receptor antagonists, tetrabenazine, clonazepam, diazepam, topiramate, botulinum toxin, functional neurosurgery
Chorea	Acute	Putamen, STn, caudate, cortex	Dopamine receptor antagonists, clonazepam, diazepam, botulinum toxin, functional neurosurgery
Dystonia	Delayed	Putamen, caudate, pallidum, thalamus, midbrain	Anticholinergics, benzodiazepines, baclofen, tetrabenazine, botulinum toxin, functional neurosurgery
Myoclonus	Acute	Hemispheres, basal ganglia, midbrain, pons, spinal cord, post-anoxic	Clonazepam, valproate, piracetam, levitiracetam
Asterixis	Acute	Thalamus, frontal lobes, basal ganglia, midbrain, cerebellum	Clonazepam, valproate, piracetam, levitiracetam
Holmes' tremor	Acute	Brainstem, cerebellum, thalamus	Levodopa, clonazepam, propranolol, valproate, levitiracetam, functional neurosurgery
Palatal tremor	Delayed	Triangle of Guillain–Mollaret	Botulinum toxin, sumatriptan, oxitriptan, carbamazepine, clonazepam
Tics	Acute	Basal ganglia, frontal lobe	Alpha-agonists, dopamine receptor antagonists
Vascular Parkinsonism	Delayed	subcortex	Levodopa, dopamine agonists