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Effect of Botulinum Toxin on Non-Motor Symptoms in Cervical Dystonia

Toxins, 2021
Patients with cervical dystonia (CD) may display non-motor symptoms, including psychiatric disturbances, pain, and sleep disorders. Intramuscular injection of botulinum toxin type A (BoNT-A) is the most efficacious treatment for motor symptoms in CD, but
Matteo Costanzo, Daniele Belvisi, Isabella Berardelli, Annalisa Maraone, Viola Baione, Gina Ferrazzano, Carolina Cutrona, Giorgio Leodori, Massimo Pasquini, Antonella Conte, Giovanni Fabbrini, Giovanni Defazio, Alfredo Berardelli   +12 more
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Cannabidiol as a Promising Strategy to Treat and Prevent Movement Disorders?

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2018
Movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease and dyskinesia are highly debilitating conditions linked to oxidative stress and neurodegeneration. When available, the pharmacological therapies for these disorders are still mainly symptomatic, do not ...
Fernanda F. Peres, Fernanda F. Peres, Alvaro C. Lima, Jaime E. C. Hallak, Jaime E. C. Hallak, José A. Crippa, José A. Crippa, Regina H. Silva, Vanessa C. Abílio, Vanessa C. Abílio   +9 more
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Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation: Two Additional Cases with Dystonic Opisthotonus

Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2019
Background: Specific phenomenology and pattern of involvement in movement disorders point toward a probable clinical diagnosis. For example, forehead chorea usually suggests Huntington’s disease; feeding dystonia suggests neuroacanthocytosis and risus ...
Sahil Mehta, Vivek Lal
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Limbic encephalitis associated with leucine-rich glioma-inactivated 1 antibodies

Annals of Saudi Medicine, 2015
We describe the case of a patient with confirmed limbic encephalitis associated with leucine-rich glioma-inactivated 1 (LGI1) antibodies. A 59-year-old man presented to the Department of Neurology with bizarre behavior, memory loss, cognitive impairment,
Mariem Messelmani, Najiba Fekih-Mrissa, Jamel Zaouali, Ridha Mrissa   +3 more
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Metoclopramide-induced acute dystonic reaction misinterpreted as conversion disorder and seizure [PDF]

Electronic Journal of General Medicine, 2017
Metoclopramide, an antiemetic, is the most common cause of drug-induced dystonic reactions. 20-year-old female patient, complaining of involuntary bilateral upward medial deviation of the eyes, generalized muscle contractions and uncontrollable cry was brought into the emergency department(ED) by an ambulance.
Betul Akbuga-Ozel, Gökhan Aksel, Elif Kilicli, Murat Muratoglu, Cemil Kavalci, Betul Gulalp, Afsin Emre Kayipmaz   +6 more
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FOCAL DYSTONIAS: NON-MOTOR SYMPTOMS AND COMORBIDITIES

Медицинский совет, 2017
Dystonia is a common extrapyramidal disease. It is characterized by both motor and non-motor manifestations, which include pain, sensory disorders and excessive physical activity.
V. A. Tolmachyova
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Torsin ATPases: Harnessing Dynamic Instability for Function

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2017
Torsins are essential, disease-relevant AAA+ (ATPases associated with various cellular activities) proteins residing in the endoplasmic reticulum and perinuclear space, where they are implicated in a variety of cellular functions.
Anna R. Chase, Ethan Laudermilch, Christian Schlieker, Christian Schlieker   +3 more
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Comparison of clinical characteristics of patients with adductor laryngeal dystonia in the focal and segmental types Comparação entre características clínicas de pacientes com distonia laríngea de adução nas formas focal e segmentar

Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, 2011
Dystonia is a central motor processing neurological disorder characterized by abnormal, often action-induced, involuntary movements or uncontrolled spasms.
Gustavo Polacow Korn, Miriam Moraes, Luiz Celso Pereira Vilanova, Bruno Teixeira de Moraes, Glaucya Madazio, Marina Padovani, Noemi Grigoletto De Biase   +6 more
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RHOBTB2 gene associated epilepsy and paroxysmal movement disorder: two cases report and literature review

Acta Epileptologica, 2021
Background RHOBTB2 gene is associated with developmental and epileptic encephalopathy-64(DEE-64), which is characterized by epilepsy, developmental delay, microcephaly, unspecific facial dysmorphism, and paroxysmal movement disorders.
Xueyang Niu, Yan Sun, Ying Yang, Miaomiao Cheng, Quanzhen Tan, Jie Zhang, Yuehua Zhang   +6 more
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White matter abnormalities and dystonic motor disorder associated with mutations in the SLC16A2 gene [PDF]

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2010
Aim  Mutations in the SLC16A2 gene have been implicated in Allan–Herndon–Dudley syndrome (AHDS), an X‐linked learning disability* syndrome associated with thyroid function test (TFT) abnormalities. Delayed myelination is a non‐specific finding in individuals with learning disability whose genetic basis is often uncertain.
Gika, Artemis D., Siddiqui, Ata, Hulse, John (Anthony), Edward, Selvakumari, Fallon, Penny, Mcentagart, Meriel E., Jan, Wajanat, Josifova, Dragana, Lerman-Sagie, Tally, Drummond, James, Thompson, Edward, Refetoff, Samuel, Boennemann, Carsten G., Jungbluth, Heinz   +13 more
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