Dystonia: Research papers
- Spontaneous and reflex activity of facial muscles in dystonia, Parkinson's disease, and in normal subjects
The blink rate is an index which can be easily obtained during the clinical examination, but it has not yet been properly standardised. The present study was undertaken to collect data on the age dependent development of this index and on possible abnormalities in Parkinson's disease and dystonia.
01 March 1998
- Patterning of globus pallidus local field potentials differs between Parkinson's disease and dystonia
Here we test the hypothesis that there are distinct temporal patterns of synchronized neuronal activity in the pallidum that characterize untreated and treated parkinsonism and dystonia.
01 December 2003
- GPi-DBS may induce a hypokinetic gait disorder with freezing of gait in patients with dystonia
The aim of this work was to determine the frequency and the nature of the GPi-DBSinduced phenomenon.
02 August 2011
- Are dopa-responsive dystonia and Parkinson's disease related disorders? A case report
Patients with mild parkinsonian symptoms, excellent response to low dosages of dopaminergic drugs and a reduced dopamine-transporter uptake in [123I] FP-CIT-SPECT might more commonly be GCH1 mutation carriers than has previously been supposed. PD patients with a positive family history of DRD and combination of these clinical symptoms should be offered genetic counselling and testing for GCH1.
24 October 2011
- Primary dystonia and dystonia-plus syndromes: clinical characteristics, diagnosis, and pathogenesis
In recent years, there have been substantial advances in the understanding of the spectrum of clinical features that encompass dystonia syndromes, from severe generalised childhood dystonia that is often genetic in origin, to adult-onset focal dystonias and rarer forms of secondary dystonias, to dystonia as a feature of other types of CNS dysfunction.
01 December 2011
- Parkinsonism and dropped head: Dystonia, myopathy or both?
DHS may be seen in either MSA or PD. It may be due to myopathy, dystonia or both. In some cases, the myopathy was focal, confined to the neck musculature. Whether dystonic antecollis predisposes to local muscle pathology is open to speculation.
01 January 2012
