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Anatomical categorization of isolated non-focal dystonia: novel and existing patterns using a data-driven approach [PDF]
Dystonia, 2023 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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Transfer Dysphagia Due to Focal Dystonia [PDF]
Journal of Movement Disorders, 2018 Objective The inability to propel a bolus of food successfully from the posterior part of the oral cavity to the oropharynx is defined as transfer dysphagia.
Priyanka Samal +7 more
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SCA2 presenting as a focal dystonia. [PDF]
J Clin Mov Disord, 2018 Spinocerebellar ataxia 2 (SCA2) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder caused by CAG repeat expansions in ATXN2 on chromosome 12q24. Patients present with adult-onset progressive gait ataxia, slow saccades, nystagmus, dysarthria and peripheral neuropathy.
Cheng N +4 more
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Neurología (English Edition), 2011 Introduction: A special group of focal dystonia is that known as occupational, which include dystonic disorders triggered by repetitive motor activity, closely associated with the professional activity of a specific task that the affected person performs.
R. Aránguiz +3 more
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2018 Writer's cramp (focal hand dystonia) is a sporadic focal dystonia that affects a specific part of the upper limb causing excessive co-contraction of antagonistic muscles.
Takeshi Shimizu +2 more
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Isolated focal dystonia phenotypes are associated with distinct patterns of altered microstructure [PDF]
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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Tremor associated with focal and segmental dystonia [PDF]
Neurologia I Neurochirurgia Polska, 2013 Tremor occurs in 10-85% of patients with focal dystonia as so-called dystonic tremor or tremor associated with dystonia. The aim of this study was to assess the incidence and to characterize parameters of tremor accompanying focal and segmental dystonia.One hundred and twenty-three patients with diagnosis of focal and segmental dystonia together with ...
Monika Rudzinska +2 more
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The large‐scale structural connectome of task‐specific focal dystonia [PDF]
Human Brain Mapping, 2020 Kristina Simonyan
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Clinical spectrum of focal dystonias: Experience from a tertiary care center
Annals of Movement Disorders, 2020 BACKGROUND: There is a paucity of literature in patients with focal dystonia from our country with certain differences in the clinical characteristics as compared to the Western population.
Rupesh Prasad +4 more
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A Clinical Approach to Focal Dystonias
Advances in Clinical Neuroscience & Rehabilitation, 2022 Dystonia is a hyperkinetic movement disorder (HMD), characterised by sustained or intermittent involuntary muscle contractions resulting in abnormal postures and/or movements [1]. Although primary dystonia has an estimated prevalence of 16 per 100,000 [2], the diagnosis may be delayed, due to its clinical heterogeneity, the lack of objective biomarkers
Sacha E Gandhi +2 more
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