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Frontiers in Neurology, 2020 Background: Cervical dystonia is the most common form of focal dystonia. The frequency and pattern of degenerative changes of the cervical spine in patients with cervical dystonia and their relation to clinical symptoms remain unclear as no direct ...
Petra Katschnig-Winter +15 more
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Brain Sciences, 2020 Pain is the most common and disabling non-motor symptom in patients with cervical dystonia. Here, we report four patients with painful cervical dystonia in whom burst spinal cord stimulation (SCS) in the cervical region produced sustained and significant
Takeshi Shimizu +6 more
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The prevalence of adult-onset isolated dystonia in Finland 2007-2016. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 BACKGROUND:Dystonia is a group of chronic diseases, causing considerable physical and psychosocial stress to patients and health care expenses. We studied the prevalence of different dystonia types in Finland in the years 2007-2016.
Rebekka Ortiz +3 more
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Investigating DYT1 in a Taiwanese dystonia cohort
Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2022 Background/purpose: A heterozygous three-nucleotide (GAG) in-frame deletion in the TOR1A gene causes the rare disease, dystonia (DYT1), which typically presents as focal limb dystonia during adolescence, then spreads to other limbs.
Meng-Chen Wu +6 more
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Quality of life at cervical distonia
Бюллетень сибирской медицины, 2020 The aim of the study was to study the physical and psychological components regarding the quality of life of patients with cervical dystonia.Material and methods. 170 respondents were examined. The main group included 120 patients with cervical dystonia,
O. A. Druzhinina +2 more
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Changes of regional cerebral blood flow after deep brain stimulation in cervical dystonia
EJNMMI Research, 2022 Introduction Cervical dystonia is considered as a network disorder affecting various brain regions in recent days. Presumably, deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the internal segment of globus pallidus (GPi) may exert therapeutic effects for cervical ...
Sungjin Park +6 more
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Motor learning deficits in cervical dystonia point to defective basal ganglia circuitry
Scientific Reports, 2021 Dystonia is conceptualized as a network disorder involving basal ganglia, thalamus, sensorimotor cortex and the cerebellum. The cerebellum has been implicated in dystonia pathophysiology, but studies testing cerebellar function in dystonia patients have ...
Sebastian Loens +8 more
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Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2018 Background: Cervical dystonia is a hyperkinetic movement disorder of unknown cause. Symptoms of cervical dystonia have been induced in animals in which the integrity of the nigro-tectal pathway is disrupted, resulting in reduced inhibition of the deep ...
Rebecca B. Beck +6 more
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“Clozapine & Valbenazine for Treatment of Tardive Cervical Dystonia: A Case Report”
Translation, 2023 Cervical dystonia is a subtype of tardive dyskinesia characterized by smooth, sustained muscle contractions affecting the head, neck, and shoulders. This condition can be caused by antipsychotic medication exposure.
Chandani Lewis, Christine Brennan
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Explicit Agency in Patients with Cervical Dystonia: Altered Recognition of Temporal Discrepancies between Motor Actions and Their Feedback. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 BACKGROUND:Abnormalities in the cognitive processing of movement have been demonstrated in patients with dystonia. The sense of agency, which is the experience of initiating and controlling one's own actions, has never before been studied in these ...
Cécile Delorme +6 more
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