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    Dystonia is a neurological hyperkinetic movement disorder in which sustained or repetitive muscle contractions occur involuntarily, resulting in twisting...
    40 KB (3,522 words) - 15:00, 21 April 2024
  • Focal dystonia, also called focal task-specific dystonia, is a neurological condition that affects a muscle or group of muscles in a specific part of the...
    25 KB (2,843 words) - 13:24, 15 April 2024
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    upwards, and/or downwards. The condition is also referred to as "cervical dystonia". Both agonist and antagonist muscles contract simultaneously during dystonic...
    26 KB (3,166 words) - 15:53, 23 December 2023
  • Myoclonic dystonia or Myoclonus dystonia syndrome is a rare movement disorder that induces spontaneous muscle contraction causing abnormal posture. The...
    22 KB (2,795 words) - 21:01, 8 November 2023
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    recognized as variants of tardive dyskinesia. Tardive dystonia is similar to standard dystonia but permanent. Tardive akathisia involves painful feelings...
    34 KB (3,555 words) - 18:39, 8 March 2024
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    a type of dystonia. It is also known as Brueghel's syndrome and oral facial dystonia. It is actually a combination of two forms of dystonia, blepharospasm...
    9 KB (929 words) - 08:31, 15 June 2023
  • Spasmodic dysphonia, also known as laryngeal dystonia, is a disorder in which the muscles that generate a person's voice go into periods of spasm. This...
    48 KB (5,091 words) - 20:59, 8 May 2024
  • Torsion dystonia, also known as dystonia musculorum deformans, is a disease characterized by painful muscle contractions resulting in uncontrollable distortions...
    11 KB (1,320 words) - 19:42, 23 February 2023
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    particularly affects the vascular system has been called vegetative-vascular dystonia. The term "vegetative" reflects an older name for the autonomic nervous...
    28 KB (2,664 words) - 12:13, 2 May 2024
  • Dopamine-responsive dystonia (DRD) also known as Segawa syndrome (SS), is a genetic movement disorder which usually manifests itself during early childhood...
    14 KB (1,654 words) - 14:00, 8 November 2023
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    eye closure leading to functional blindness. Oromandibular dystonia is a type of dystonia marked by forceful contractions of the lower face, which causes...
    45 KB (5,754 words) - 10:57, 15 February 2024
  • Writer's cramp or focal hand dystonia (FHD) is an idiopathic movement disorder of adult onset, characterized by abnormal posturing and movement of the...
    11 KB (1,275 words) - 13:24, 15 April 2024
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    X-linked dystonia parkinsonism (XDP), also known as lubag syndrome or X-linked dystonia of Panay, is a rare X-linked progressive movement disorder with...
    7 KB (708 words) - 17:37, 15 February 2024
  • Oromandibular dystonia (OMD) is an uncommon focal neurological condition affecting the jaws, face, and mouth. Oromandibular dystonia is characterized by...
    21 KB (1,845 words) - 03:29, 22 January 2024
  • marriage to Christine, a theatre director. A sufferer of dystonia, Thompson became patron of the Dystonia Society in 2006. In London between 1975 and 1985, mainly...
    9 KB (736 words) - 11:57, 30 April 2024
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    drug-induced parkinsonism, akathisia and acute dystonia, Parkinson's disease, and idiopathic or secondary dystonia. It is used in patients with parkinsonism...
    5 KB (389 words) - 10:51, 10 October 2023
  • (short-term) or chronic (long-term). They include movement dysfunction such as dystonia (continuous spasms and muscle contractions), akathisia (may manifest as...
    13 KB (1,359 words) - 06:00, 24 March 2024
  • development of Pisa syndrome consists of two types of dystonia: acute dystonia and tardive dystonia (also known as tardive dyskinesia). The underlying pathology...
    15 KB (2,047 words) - 17:36, 15 July 2023
  • The classical symptoms of the syndrome are spasmodic torticollis and dystonia. Nodding and rotation of the head, neck extension, gurgling, writhing movements...
    7 KB (528 words) - 20:45, 28 April 2024
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    causes of dystonia such as metabolic, vascular, and structural abnormalities, there are still patients with dystonia with no apparent cause. Dystonia can occur...
    29 KB (3,235 words) - 01:46, 3 December 2023
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