Dystonia

CD Stephen, K Simonyan, L Ozelius… - Neurobiology of Brain …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dystonia is a common movement disorder involving abnormal, often twisting postures and is
a challenging condition to diagnose as we present here in a comprehensive overview. The …

The apparent paradox of phenotypic diversity and shared mechanisms across dystonia syndromes

A Di Fonzo, A Albanese, HA Jinnah - Current opinion in …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
The discovery of biological pathways shared between different monogenic dystonias is an
important conceptual advance in the understanding of the underlying mechanisms, with a …

Adult-onset focal dystonias: To lump or split

HA Jinnah, G DeFazio - International Review of Neurobiology, 2023 - Elsevier
The adult-onset focal dystonias are a group of clinically heterogeneous disorders that affect
different regions of the body. Although they affect different regions with different clinical …

Sex and gender differences in movement disorders: Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, dystonia and chorea

G Arabia, A De Martino, E Moro - International review of neurobiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Sex and gender-based differences in epidemiology, clinical features and therapeutical
responses are emerging in several movement disorders, even though they are still not …

Case series of drug-induced open bite: Extrapyramidal symptoms related to psychotropic medications

M Watanabe, TTH Tu, C Takao, C Maeda… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Drug-induced open bite is one of the extrapyramidal symptoms with abnormal
tonus of muscles and is rarely recognized in dentistry. This is a retrospective case study to …

Gender Differences in Task Specific Dystonia: What Can we Learn from Musician's Dystonia?

J Doll‐Lee, E Passarotto… - Movement Disorders …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background Musician's Dystonia (MD) is a task specific, focal dystonia which
usually occurs only at the instrument. The pathophysiology is not fully understood, but …

Sex Differences in Dystonia

G Kilic‐Berkmen, L McKay, M Thayani… - Movement Disorders …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Prior studies have indicated that female individuals outnumber male individuals
for certain types of dystonia. Few studies have addressed factors impacting these sex …

Gait and balance in cervical dystonia and dystonic head tremor

A Wagle Shukla, A Gurrala, V Vedam-Mai - Dystonia, 2023 - frontierspartnerships.org
Background Previous studies have found gait and balance abnormalities in patients with
cervical dystonia. However, the characteristics of gait and balance in cervical dystonia with …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive cognitive analysis of cervical dystonia: A single centre study

S Rafee, M Diepman, D McCormack… - Clinical Parkinsonism & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction Cervical dystonia (CD) presents as a motor disorder but has a number of non-
motor features. Studies have demonstrated diverse changes in cognition in patients with CD …

Does sex influence the natural history of idiopathic adult-onset dystonia?

V Velucci, S Idrissi, R Pellicciari, M Esposito… - Journal of Neurology …, 2024 - jnnp.bmj.com
Background Several earlier studies showed a female predominance in idiopathic adult-
onset dystonia (IAOD) affecting the craniocervical area and a male preponderance in limb …