A Man with Rapid Speech and Handwriting.

This patient met criteria for a diagnosis of probable PSP with predominant parkinsonism based upon slowed and incomplete vertical saccades, levodopa non-responsive parkinsonism, and postural instability.[4] Tachymicrographia may help clinicians distinguish PSP from other parkinsonisms during early disease stages. Keywords: parkinsonism; micrographia; tachygraphia; PSP EN parkinsonism micrographia tachygraphia PSP 1217 1218 2 08/29/23 20230801 NES 230801 Fifty-eight-year-old man presented with difficulty in speech and handwriting for 2 years. The speech pattern of some atypical parkinsonisms (MSA and PSP) can be like PD; however, MSA tends to cause more scanning and ataxic qualities while spastic speech is more common in PSP. [Extracted from the article]