Most medical centers are postponing elective procedures and deferring non-urgent clinic
visits to conserve hospital resources and prevent spread of COVID-19. The pandemic crisis …

The year 2017 marks the 70th anniversary of the birth of human stereotactic neurosurgery.
The first procedure was a pallidotomy for Huntington's disease. However, it was for …

Dystonic storm is a frightening hyperkinetic movement disorder emergency. Marked, rapid
exacerbation of dystonia requires prompt intervention and admission to the intensive care …

Status dystonicus is a movement disorder emergency that has been a source of controversy
in terms of terminology, phenomenology, and management since it was first described in …

The term, tardive dyskinesia (TD), originally was coined by Faurbye and colleagues 1 in
their description of delayed-onset, persistent, rhythmic, stereotyped movements after …

Background: Status dystonicus (SD) is a life‐threatening condition. Objective and Methods:
In a dystonia cohort who developed status dystonicus, we analyzed demographics …

Background: Rare movement disorders (RMDs) throw remarkable challenges to their
appropriate management particularly when they are medically refractory. We studied the …

Background Focal hand dystonia (FHD) is usually adult-onset focal dystonia that can be
associated with marked occupational and functional disability leading to reduced quality of …

OBJECTIVE First-line pharmacological therapies have shown limited efficacy in status
dystonicus (SD), while surgery is increasingly reported as remediable in refractory cases. In …

In their 2017 publication titled “The Changing Landscape of Surgery for Parkinson's
Disease,” Lozano et al.[1] discussed “The Rise and Fall, Re-emergence, and Redecline of …