Faciobrachial Dystonic Seizures: The Borderland Between Epilepsy and Movement Disorders [PDF]
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Alessandra Morano +1 more
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Dystonic Movement Disorder as Symptom of Catatonia in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Background. Catatonia is increasingly recognized as a comorbid psychiatric condition in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but the overlap of behavioral characteristics between these disorders raises many diagnostic challenges.
Maria Pia Riccio +4 more
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Episodic Choreo-Dystonic Storm in an Infantile-Onset Movement Disorder: Think of G Protein Subunit Alpha O1 Gene Defect! [PDF]
While ATPase Copper Transporting Beta (ATP7B), Dystonia-1 (DYT-1), Lysine (K) Methyl transferase 2B (KMT2B), and Adenylate Cyclase 5 (ADCY5) gene mutations are well-characterized causes of childhood-onset choreo-dystonic movement disorders, G protein ...
Manas Saxena +4 more
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The importance of early immunotherapy in patients with faciobrachial dystonic seizures [PDF]
Faciobrachial dystonic seizures and limbic encephalitis closely associate with antibodies to leucine-rich glioma-inactivated 1 (LGI1). Here, we describe 103 consecutive patients with faciobrachial dystonic seizures and LGI1 antibodies to understand ...
Mateusz Makuch +2 more
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Beyond Improvement of Motor Symptoms: Central Effects of Botulinum Toxin on Anxiety and Depression in Focal Dystonia, Hemifacial Spasm, and Blepharospasm [PDF]
Cervical dystonia (CD), blepharospasm (BSP), and idiopathic hemifacial spasm (HFS) are focal hyperkinetic movement disorders with distinct underlying mechanisms.
Tihana Gilman Kuric +10 more
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Single Dose Levosulpiride Induced Acute Dystonic Reaction
Movement disorders are a common presentation to the emergency department. Acute dystonic reactions pose a serious medical challenge because they are often under or misdiagnosed.
Suhrith Bhattaram, Varsha S Shinde
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Diagnosis and treatment of functional dystonia
Functional dystonia is one of the most common phenotypes of functional movement disorder (FMD). Multiple clinical manifestations of functional dystonia are complex and some symptoms overlap with idiopathic dystonia.
LI Shu‑hua, SU Wen, CHEN Hai‑bo
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Faciobrachial dystonic seizure-like events in a patient with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
Faciobrachial dystonic seizure is a distinctive phenomenology that is considered pathognomonic of leucine-rich glioma-inactivated protein 1 (LGI1) antibody-associated autoimmune limbic encephalitis.
Vikram V Holla +5 more
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The Central Effects of Botulinum Toxin in Dystonia and Spasticity
In dystonic and spastic movement disorders, however different in their pathophysiological mechanisms, a similar impairment of sensorimotor control with special emphasis on afferentation is assumed.
Pavel Hok +4 more
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Testing rTMS-Induced Neuroplasticity: A Single Case Study of Focal Hand Dystonia [PDF]
Focal hand dystonia in musicians is a neurological motor disorder in which aberrant plasticity is caused by excessive repetitive use. This work's purposes were to induce plasticity changes in a dystonic musician through five daily thirty-minute sessions ...
Betti, Sonia +3 more
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