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Botulinum Toxin in the Treatment of Cervical Dystonia: Evidence-Based Review
Dystonia, 2022 Cervical dystonia is the most common form of dystonia encountered in a movement disorders clinic. Botulinum toxin has been a long-established first line therapy.
Nadia Hammoud, J. Jankovic
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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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Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings, 2022 This study examined the predictive ability of the Common-Sense Model to explain psychological outcomes in cervical dystonia, a movement disorder that affects the muscles of the head and neck.
Sarah O’Connor, D. Hevey, F. O'Keeffe
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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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Hold that pose: capturing cervical dystonia's head deviation severity from video
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 2022 Deviated head posture is a defining characteristic of cervical dystonia (CD). Head posture severity is typically quantified with clinical rating scales such as the Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale (TWSTRS).
Zheng Zhang +21 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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Unilateral pallidothalamic tractotomy at Forel's field H1 for cervical dystonia
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 2022 Neurosurgical ablation of Forel's field H1 for cervical dystonia, which is currently abandoned, was formerly used in the 1960s–1970s. Regardless of the lack of neuroimaging modalities and objective evaluation scales, the reported efficacy was significant.
S. Horisawa +7 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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