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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Isolated focal dystonia phenotypes are associated with distinct patterns of altered microstructure
NeuroImage: Clinical, 2018 Objective: Isolated adult-onset focal dystonia is considered a network disorder with disturbances to the motor basal ganglia and cerebellar circuits playing a pathophysiological role, but why specific body regions become affected remains unknown.
Brian D. Berman +4 more
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Dystonia and paroxysmal dyskinesias: under-recognized movement disorders in domestic animals? A comparison with human dystonia/paroxysmal dyskinesias. [PDF]
, 2015 Dystonia is defined as a neurological syndrome characterized by involuntary sustained or intermittent muscle contractions causing twisting, often repetitive movements, and postures.
Albanese +116 more
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Does the somatosensory temporal discrimination threshold change over time in focal dystonia? [PDF]
, 2017 BACKGROUND: The somatosensory temporal discrimination threshold (STDT) is defined as the shortest interval at which an individual recognizes two stimuli as asynchronous. Some evidence suggests that STDT depends on cortical inhibitory interneurons in the
Belvisi, Daniele +6 more
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Medicina, 2022 Background: Cervical dystonia is a highly disabling hyperkinetic movement disorder with a lot of nonmotor symptoms. One symptom with a high prevalence is depression, which may negatively affect dystonia patients.
Vlada Meļņikova +3 more
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Pain processing in functional and idiopathic dystonia: An exploratory study. [PDF]
, 2018 BACKGROUND: Pain is often experienced by patients with functional dystonia and idiopathic cervical dystonia and is likely to be determined by different neural mechanisms.
Albanese +40 more
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Informed consent decision-making in deep brain stimulation [PDF]
, 2018 Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has proved useful for several movement disorders (Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, dystonia), in which first and/or second line pharmacological treatments were inefficacious.
Appelbaum +6 more
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Smoothness of movement in idiopathic cervical dystonia
Scientific Reports, 2022 Smoothness (i.e. non-intermittency) of movement is a clinically important property of the voluntary movement with accuracy and proper speed. Resting head position and head voluntary movements are impaired in cervical dystonia.
Antonio Caronni +10 more
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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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Multimodal Quantitative MRI Reveals No Evidence for Tissue Pathology in Idiopathic Cervical Dystonia
Frontiers in Neurology, 2019 Background: While in symptomatic forms of dystonia cerebral pathology is by definition present, it is unclear so far whether disease is associated with microstructural cerebral changes in idiopathic dystonia.
René-Maxime Gracien +14 more
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