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Adult-Onset Idiopathic Cervical Dystonia [PDF]
, 2022 Adult-onset idiopathic focal dystonia is the most common type of primary dystonia, and adult-onset idiopathic cervical dystonia (AOICD) is its most prevalent phenotype.
Shameer Rafee +2 more
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Further understanding of cervical dystonia
Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2017 Dystonia is a movement disorder characterized by sustained or intermittent muscle contractions causing abnormal, often repetitive, movements, postures, or both. Botulinum toxin (BTX) has been recommended as the first-line treatment choice for the most
Lin WANG, Xin-hua WAN
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Neuropathology of cervical dystonia [PDF]
Experimental Neurology, 2013 The aim of this study was to search for neuropathological changes in postmortem brain tissue of individuals with cervical dystonia (CD). Multiple regions of formalin-preserved brains were collected from patients with CD and controls and examined with an extensive battery of histopathological stains in a two-stage study design. In stage one, 4 CD brains
C N, Prudente +6 more
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Mood disorder affects age at onset of adult-onset cervical dystonia
Clinical Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, 2020 Introduction: Mood disorder is common in cervical dystonia, affects quality of life and may precede the onset of the dystonia. There is controversy as to whether mood disorder is part of the primary process or secondary to the disability.We assessed the ...
Ihedinachi Ndukwe +3 more
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Sleep Disorders in Cervical Dystonia, Parkinson’s Disease and Depression – What Is the Difference?
Southeastern European Medical Journal, 2020 Introduction: Sleep disorders are among the most common non-motor symptoms in patients with cervical dystonia (CD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and depression. The study aimed to assess the prevalence and characteristics of sleep disorders in patients with
Svetlana Tomić +7 more
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Exploratory structural assessment in craniocervical dystonia: Global and differential analyses. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Our goal was to investigate the cortical thickness and subcortical volume in subjects with craniocervical dystonia and its subgroups.We studied 49 subjects, 17 with cervical dystonia, 18 with blepharospasm or oromandibular dystonia, and 79 healthy ...
Larissa Vilany +10 more
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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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