THE GENETIC BASIS OF PRIMARY ADULT-ONSET DYSTONIA [PDF]
Objectives. To identify novel genetic loci associated with primary adult-onset dystonia (AOD) and assess candidate genes from the literature. Secondary aimes.
Esposito, Marcello
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Isolated focal dystonia phenotypes are associated with distinct patterns of altered microstructure
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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Explicit Agency in Patients with Cervical Dystonia: Altered Recognition of Temporal Discrepancies between Motor Actions and Their Feedback. [PDF]
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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Somatotopy of cervical dystonia in motor-cerebellar networks: Evidence from resting state fMRI. [PDF]
INTRODUCTION Cervical dystonia is the most frequent form of isolated focal dystonia. It is often associated with a dysfunction in brain networks, mostly affecting the basal ganglia, the cerebellum, and the somatosensory cortex.
Gallea, Cécile +18 more
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Chronic migraine and cervical dystonia
Neck pain with cervical muscle tension is common in patients with chronic migraine (CM). These symptoms seem to share common features with cervical dystonia (CD), which is characterised by abnormal neck muscle contractions in the neck affecting head ...
LIN ZHANG (11496730)
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A Multi-center Genome-wide Association Study of Cervical Dystonia
BACKGROUND: Several monogenic causes for isolated dystonia have been identified, but they collectively account for only a small proportion of cases. Two genome-wide association studies have reported a few potential dystonia risk loci; but conclusions ...
Neis, Miriam +54 more
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Regaining Motor Control in Musician's Dystonia by Restoring Sensorimotor Organization [PDF]
Professional musicians are an excellent human model of long term effects of skilled motor training on the structure and function of the motor system.
Rosenkranz, K. +7 more
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Background: Cervical dystonia (CD) is the most common form of focal dystonia encountered in the clinic. Approximately one-third of CD patients have co-existing tremor in the head and hands. Assessment of tremor as regular or irregular in context of its oscillation trajectory, frequency, and amplitude is a major clinical challenge and can confound the ...
Beylergil, Sinem Balta +30 more
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Cervical dystonia : abnormal cerebral activation patterns related to preparation and execution of hand movement [PDF]
Cervical dystonia (CD) is a movement disorder characterized by sustained involuntary muscular contractions which cause repetitive twisting movements and abnormal postures of the head. CD is primarily a brain disorder.
Vries, Paulien Maria de +1 more
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Smell and taste in cervical dystonia
The pathophysiology of cervical dystonia is not completely understood. Current concepts of the pathophysiology propose that it is a network disorder involving the basal ganglia, cerebellum and sensorimotor cortex. These structures are primarily concerned
Vollmer, Marcus +10 more
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