Myoclonus is a sudden, brief, involuntary muscle jerk. It is caused by abrupt muscle contraction, in the case of positive myoclonus, or by sudden cessation of ongoing muscular activity, in the case of negative myoclonus (NM).
Abraham Baldwin (1754-1807) The founder of the University of Georgia and a delegate to the constitutional convention in 1787, Abraham Baldwin was born on November 22, 1754, to Lucy Dudley and Michael Baldwin in North Guilford, Connecticut.
In 1908, at the pinnacle of his career, Baldwin was arrested in a raid on a Baltimore bordello and forced to resign from . The ensuing scandal led to his being ostracized from American psychology; and he spent most of the rest of his life in Europe. There he wrote an autobiography, Between Two Wars (1926).