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Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2018 This chapter presents a review of the literature for falls and abnormalities of balance and gait in isolated dystonia syndromes. Balance appears to be relatively preserved in primary and focal dystonias, except when postural abnormalities significantly ...
Bettina Balint +2 more
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Non-motor symptoms in dystonia: from diagnosis to treatment [PDF]
Dystonia, 2023 The Dystonia Medical Research Foundation organized an expert virtual workshop in March 2023 to review the evidence on non-motor symptoms across the spectrum of dystonia, discuss existing assessment methods, need for their harmonisation and roadmap to ...
Kathryn J. Peall +20 more
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British Medical Bulletin, 2017 Dystonia is a movement disorder characterized by sustained or intermittent muscle contractions. Classification of dystonia is based on age of onset, distribution of body parts affected, and underlying etiology.
David G Standaert, Jeri Yvonne Williams
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Rating scales for dystonia: A multicenter assessment
Movement Disorders, 2003 The evaluation of dystonia requires a reliable rating scale. The widely used Fahn-Marsden Scale (F-M) has not been sufficiently tested across multiple centers and investigators.
Joanne Wuu, Glenn T Stebbins
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Hairdresser's Dystonia: An Unusual Occupational Dystonia
Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2013 Background: Adult‐onset focal dystonias (AOFDs) are non‐task‐specific or task‐specific and may spread to other body segments of affected patients.Case report: We report the case of a barber with non‐task‐specific craniocervical dystonia and a ...
Maurizio Giorelli +3 more
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Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, 2012 Summary: In 1984, dystonia was defined by an ad hoc committee of the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation as a syndrome of involuntary, sustained muscle contractions affecting one or more sites of the body, frequently causing twisting and repetitive ...
Mark S. LeDoux, LeDoux, Mark S.
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Dystonia: diagnosis and management
European Journal of Neurology, 2019 Clinical practice in dystonia has greatly evolved in recent years; a synthetic review on patient management is provided here. Dystonia is a movement disorder characterized by sustained or intermittent muscle contractions causing abnormal, often ...
Alberto Albanese +2 more
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Video analysis of patients with blepharospasm and lower face dystonias
Dystonia, 2023 Background: Blepharospasm (BSP) is a focal dystonia. There is a lack of standardization in the length of time necessary to get a measure of BSP severity for rating scales.Objectives: 1) Determine the difference between evaluating the number of eye ...
Mahdieh Hosseini +4 more
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Disrupted sleep in dystonia depends on cerebellar function but not motor symptoms in mice
Dystonia, 2023 Although dystonia is the third most common movement disorder, patients often also experience debilitating nonmotor defects including impaired sleep.
Luis E. Salazar Leon +7 more
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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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