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Articles tagged "Dystonia: Etiology and Pathogenesis"

  • 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…
  • 2018 International Congress

    Decreased blood beta-Glucosidase activity and GBA mutations in Dystonia

    S. Schreglmann, D. Burke, A. Batla, N. Kresojevic, N. Wood, S. Heales, K. Bhatia (London, United Kingdom)

    Objective: To report on the observation of decreased levels of GCase in peripheral blood in patients presenting with dystonia without signs of parkinsonism. Background: Glucocerebrosidase…
  • 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…
  • 2017 International Congress

    Sensory trick phenomenon in cervical dystonia: a functional MRI study

    E. Sarasso, F. Agosta, S. Amadio, C. Butera, F. Bianchi, P. Valsasina, R. Guerriero, G. Comi, R. Gatti, U. Del Carro, M. Filippi (Milan, Italy)

    Objective: This study investigates the patterns of brain functional MRI (fMRI) during resting-state (RS) with and without sensory trick (ST) and during the ST imagination…
  • 2017 International Congress

    Somatosensory Mismatch Negativity is abnormal in Cervical Dystonia.

    J.-C. CHEN, M. Edwards, J. Rothwell, A. Macerollo (Taichung city, Taiwan)

    Objective:  Here, we hypothesised that somatosensory abnormality in patients with dystonia relates to a more general deficit in pre-attentive error/deviant detection .   Background: Dystonia is a common…
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