“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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Cervical Dystonia Mimics: A Case Series and Review of the Literature
Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2019 Background: Cervical dystonia is mostly idiopathic in nature. However, a small subset of cases are mimics, leading to diagnostic pitfalls. There is paucity of literature on pseudodystonias affecting the cervical region.
Srinivas Raju, Amogh Ravi, LK Prashanth
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Botulinum toxin injection changes resting state cerebellar connectivity in cervical dystonia
Scientific Reports, 2021 In cervical dystonia, functional MRI (fMRI) evidence indicates changes in several resting state networks, which revert in part following the botulinum neurotoxin A (BoNT) therapy.
P. Hok +8 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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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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Cervical Dystonia Is Associated With Aberrant Inhibitory Signaling Within the Thalamus
Frontiers in Neurology, 2021 Objective: The objective of this study is to investigate whether alterations in the neurotransmission of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in the thalamus are present in patients with cervical dystonia compared to healthy controls.
C. Groth +5 more
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Non‐motor phenotypic subgroups in adult‐onset idiopathic, isolated, focal cervical dystonia
Brain and Behavior, 2021 Background: Non‐motor symptoms are well established phenotypic components of adult‐onset idiopathic, isolated, focal cervical dystonia (AOIFCD). However, improved understanding of their clinical heterogeneity is needed to better target therapeutic ...
Megan E. Wadon +21 more
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Botulinum toxin type A versus anticholinergics for cervical dystonia.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2021 BACKGROUND This is an update of a Cochrane Review first published in 2005. Cervical dystonia is the most common form of focal dystonia and is a highly disabling movement disorder, characterised by involuntary, usually painful, head posturing.
Filipe B Rodrigues +7 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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Efficacy and Safety of DaxibotulinumtoxinA for Injection in Cervical Dystonia
NeurologyBackground and Objectives ASPEN-1 was a phase 3, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to evaluate the efficacy, duration of response, and safety of 2 doses of DaxibotulinumtoxinA for Injection (DAXI), a novel botulinum toxin type A ...
Cynthia L. Comella +8 more
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