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This paper provides an overview of the phenomenology, epidemiology, and treatment of tardive dystonia. Tardive dystonia is one of the extrapyramidal syndromes that starts after long-term use of dopamine receptor antagonists. The diagnosis is based on the presence of chronic dystonia, defined as a syndrome of sustained muscle contractions, frequently ...
van Harten, P.N., Kahn, R.S.
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Long-Term Efficacy and Safety of Chronic Globus Pallidus Internus Stimulation in Different Types of Primary Dystonia [PDF]
Background: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the globus pallidus internus (GPi) offers a very promising therapy for medically intractable dystonia. However, little is known about the long-term benefit and safety of this procedure. We therefore performed a
Voges, J. +6 more
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Accounting for Dystonia: Personalising Illness Through Narrative [PDF]
This paper explores how people living with dystonia, a chronic neurological condition involving involuntary muscle spasms in multiple body parts, use narrative to make sense of illness by linking past, present and future, and giving their condition ...
Camfield, Laura
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According to expert consensus, dystonia can be classified as focal, segmental, multifocal, and generalized, based on the affected body distribution. To provide an empirical and data-driven approach to categorizing these distributions, we used a data ...
J. R. Younce +17 more
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Striatal Vulnerability in Huntington’s Disease: Neuroprotection Versus Neurotoxicity
Huntington’s disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease caused by the expansion of a CAG trinucleotide repeat encoding an abnormally long polyglutamine tract (PolyQ) in the huntingtin (Htt) protein.
Ryoma Morigaki, Satoshi Goto
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Background: Botulinum toxin (BoNT) injections have been found to improve pain symptoms of isolated cervical dystonia (CD). In addition to muscle relaxation at the peripheral level, few studies suggest that BoNT has effects on the central brain ...
Aparna Wagle Shukla, Robert Chen, Wei Hu
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Early Globus Pallidus Internus Stimulation in Pediatric Patients With Generalized Primary Dystonia: Long-Term Efficacy and Safety [PDF]
Primary generalized dystonia presents mainly at a young age and commonly is severely disabling. The authors report the long-term follow-up (mean, 73 months; range, 50-101 months) of 5 pediatric patients (mean age at surgery 13 years; range, 8-16 years ...
Feddersen, Berend +4 more
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X-linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism patient cells exhibit altered signaling via nuclear factor-kappa B
X-linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism (XDP) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease involving the loss of medium spiny neurons within the striatum. An XDP-specific haplotype has been identified, consisting of seven sequence variants which cluster around the ...
Christine A. Vaine +7 more
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The role of protein kinase R in dystonia
Dystonia is a progressive neurological motor disease with few treatment options and no cure. This review synthesizes the results of recent studies that implicate protein kinase R in mediating the molecular mechanisms of dystonia pathogenesis.
Benjamin Dodd +3 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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