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Articles tagged "Dystonia: Etiology and Pathogenesis"

  • 2018 International Congress

    Temporal discrimination threshold in musician’s dystonia – an endophenotype?

    F. Borngräber, T. Paulus, J. Junker, S. Passmann, R. Reilly, M. Hutchinson, C. Klein, A. Kühn, E. Altenmüller, T. Bäumer, A. Schmidt (Berlin, Germany)

    Objective: To compare the temporal discrimination threshold (TDT) between musician's dystonia (MD) patients and healthy controls, and between dystonic and non-dystonic fingers of musicians with…
  • 2018 International Congress

    Frequency and Phenoptypic Spectrum of KMT2B Mutations in Childhood-Onset Dystonia: Results from a Single-Centre Cohort Study

    M. Carecchio, G. Zorzi, F. Invernizzi, C. Panteghini, L. Romito, F. Zibordi, V. Leuzzi, S. Galosi, P. Morana, B. Morana, C. Piano, A. Bentivoglio, C. Reale, F. Girotti, M. Topf, A. Joseph, M. Kurian, S. Lubbe, B. Garavaglia, N. Mencacci, N. Nardocci (Milan, Italy)

    Objective: To assess the frequency of KMT2B mutations in a cohort of patients with childhood-onset dystonia and characterize the related molecular and phenotypic spectrum. Background:…
  • 2018 International Congress

    Impaired reaching movements in idiopathic cervical dystonia patients

    A. Castagna, L. Sciumè, A. Caronni, D. Anastasi, A. Montesano, A. Marzegan (Milano, Italy)

    Objective: Aim of the current study is to describe how patients with idiopathic cervical dystonia (CD) perform reaching movements with their upper limb (i.e. a…
  • 2018 International Congress

    Cohort profile of the Japan Dystonia Consortium: Genetic diagnosis and characteristics of movement disorders in Japan

    T. Kawarai, R. Miyamoto, A. Orlacchio, R. Kaji (Tokushima, Japan)

    Objective: To reveal molecular epidemiology of hereditary dystonia through resequencing of the currently-known dystonia genes and identification of novel genetic defects. Background: The Japan Dystonia…
  • 2018 International Congress

    Spectrum of movement disorders with anti-neuronal antibodies: Case series

    A. Kumar, S. Mehta, V. Lal (Chandigarh, India)

    Objective: To study the spectrum of clinical features of antineuronal antibody associated neurological syndromes presenting at a tertiary care centre in North India. Background: Movement…
  • 2018 International Congress

    Reversible Extrapyramidal features as unusual presentation of central pontine myelinolysis: A case report

    S. El-Jaafary, A. Sabbah, S. Ahmed (Cairo, Egypt)

    Objective: To be acquainted with the extrapyramidal symptoms developed during the course of central pontine myelinolysis. To emphasize the importance of neuroimaging in the diagnosis…
  • 2018 International Congress

    Generation and in-depth characterization of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines from 10 affected and unaffected carriers of THAP1 mutations

    H. Baumann, M. Trilck, M. Jahn, A. Münchau, V. Kostic, C. Klein, P. Seibler, K. Lohmann (Luebeck, Germany)

    Objective: To establish induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) of affected and unaffected Mutation carriers to investigate disease mechanisms of THAP1 in dystonia. Background: Mutations in…
  • 2018 International Congress

    Does ‘DYT23’ exist? Report of a second family with adult- onset focal dystonia and a CACNA1AB mutation – causative or coincidental?

    P. Agarwal, M. Desai, S. Ravat (Mumbai, India)

    Objective: To describe clinical and genetic findings in a patient with focal adult-onset primary cranial dystonia and chorea, and a mutation in CACNA1B (also referred…
  • 2017 International Congress

    Prominent extensor truncal and cervical dystonia induced by mirtazapine

    W.T. Yoon (Seoul, Republic of Korea)

    Objective: Truncal and Our aim is to report unusual case of man who developed prominent extensor truncal and cervical dystonia induced by mirtazapine. Background: Truncal…
  • 2017 International Congress

    Haploinsufficiency of KMT2B causes myoclonus-dystonia with impaired psychomotor ability

    T. Kawarai, R. Miyamoto, H. Mure, R. Morigaki, R. Oki, A. Orlacchio, R. Koichihara, E. Nakagawa, T. Sakamoto, Y. Izumi, S. Goto, R. Kaji (Tokushima, Japan)

    Objective: To investigate the genetic defect in patients with early-onset dystonia and myoclonus accompanying various neurological features. Background: Unlike other Mendelian disorders, dystonia genetics has…
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