... studies were also reviewed and will be discussed further. Key Messages: The most common post-stroke abnormal movement disorder reported in our review was dystonia followed by hemiataxia. There was a higher association between ischaemic stroke and movement disorder. Acute onset movement disorders were more...

... disease Copper chelator Neurological disability Dystonia Patient 1's initial brain MRI showed hyperintensities on the FLAIR sequences in the brain stem, pons and lentiform nuclei. The lentiform nuclei were atrophic. The brain MRI was unchanged following 7 months of copper chelator treatment...

.... Parkinson’s disease Camptocormia Selegiline Dystonia Postural sway Camptocormia is a thoracolumbar anteflexion that presents while standing or walking, and disappears in the spine position. The prevalence of camptocormia in Parkinson's disease (PD) was reported as 3.0-17.7% [ 1,2,3,4,5,6,7...

..., from 169 Brazilian families, with SCAs were assessed with neurological examination and molecular genetic testing. Results: Dystonia was the most common movement disorder, found in 5.5% of all patients, particularly in SCA3. We observed Parkinsonian features in 6.6% of SCA3 patients, and myoclonus...

... to central nervous system diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, multisystem atrophy, or Alzheimer’s disease, due to peripheral nervous system diseases, such as primary myopathy, secondary myopathy, motor neuron disease, myasthenia, or chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, due to side...

... neurotoxins is useful for their beneficial influence on more than 50 pathological conditions such as spastic paralysis, cerebral palsy, focal dystonia, essential tremor, headache, incontinence and a variety of cosmetic interventions. Injection of adequate quantities of botulinum toxins in spastic muscles...

...G. Defazio; P. Livrea; G. Guanti; V. Lepore; E. Ferrari A family study in 29 patients with idiopathic adult-onset blepharospasm (n = 16) and cranial-cervical dystonia (n = 13) was undertaken by examining 189 first-degree relatives. Six relatives with dystonia were identified in 6 families...

... or upon arousal and awakenings. Paroxysmal dystonic choreoathetosis was excluded by the absent family history, and paroxysmal kinesigenic dystonia by the absence of triggering effects by sudden movements and efficacy of anticonvulsants. Pattern and duration of involuntary movements were not those typical...

...A. Albanese; C. Colosimo; D. Carretta; A. Dickmann; A.R. Bentivoglio; P. Tonali Fifty-two patients affected by focal dystonia or hemifacial spasm were treated with repeated injections of botulinum toxin. A clinical improvement was observed in all patients with blepharospasm; clinical benefit had...

...Klaus Schott; Sybille Ried; Ines Stevens; Johannes Dichgans A patient with Huntington’s disease developed acute dystonia whilst treated with tiapride. Sulpiride and tetrabenazine also induced dystonia. The anticholinergic biperiden depressed the syndrome but worsened psycho-pathology. Finally...

... Tremor Dyskinesia Dystonia ...

...Therese Treves; Amos D. Korczyn Cerebral palsy (CP) was commonly considered as a static encephalopathy with various clinical forms. Among them the dystonic form may occur alone (15%) or combined with other manifestations (e.g. spasticity). In a country-wide survey of dystonia in Israel, we...

...Charles E. Oates; Peter Bosch; Michael N. Hart A 24-year-old man presented with dystonia, dementia, amyotrophy, choreoathetosis, and ataxia. Partial hexosaminidase A deficiency was documented in serum and leukocytes and confirmed by rectal biopsy with ganglion cells containing membranous...

...F. Patti; P. Marano; F. Nicoletti; G. Giammona; Fr. Nicoletti We report that repeated administration of salmon calcitonin (20–40 µg daily for 30 days) improves dystonic symptoms in patients affected by idiopathic torsion dystonia, blepharospasm-oromandibular dystonia syndrome or writer’s cramp...

... cycle and spinal reflex excitability have been studied. According to the clinical and neurophysiological findings, the phenomenon appears to be a dystonia. Such a dystonia may occur as the only pathological neurological sign or together with other signs of central nervous system involvement. Particular...

.... Cutaneous polysynaptic reflexes Avoidance reaction Lemniscal system Dystonia Eur. Neurol. 20: 416-420 (1981) Cutaneous Reflexes in the Avoidance Reaction Dehen*. J.C. Wilierb, J. Cambiera 'Hôpital Bcaujon, Clinique Neurologique. Clichy, France, et bLaboratoire de Neurophysiologie Clinique. Paris...

...Elisabeth Fertl; Peter Schnider; Barbara Schneider; Eduard Auff This study investigates the remote effects of botulinum toxin injections by examining the motor unit architecture of noninjected distant muscles. In 21 dystonia patients treated with botulinum toxin (n = 11, mean cumulative dose = 815...

...) suffering from cervical dystonia (n = 66), blepharospasm (n = 28), and facial hemispasm (n = 21) over a period of 2 years in an open label, non-controlled pilot study. Patients received low-dose treatment with botulinum toxin type A (Dysport ® ). The toxin was diluted in 20 ml of 0.1% albumin solution...

... movement disorders, 23 (71.9%) had parkinsonism, 5 dystonia, 3 chorea and 1 myoclonus. All were associated with delayed CO encephalopathy. The median latency between CO poisoning and the onset of movement disorders was 4 weeks for parkinsonism, 51 weeks for dystonia, 4 weeks for chorea and 8 weeks...

...Sibel Karşidaǧ;; Feriha Özer; Aysu Şen; Baki Arpacı Reports of 9 cases with hand dystonia due to stroke are described. The site of the lesion was found to be parietothalamic in 1 patient, posterolateral thalamic in 5 patients, dorsal thalamic in 2 patients and medial thalamic in 1 patient...