Diagnosis & treatment of dystonia

HA **nah - Neurologic clinics, 2015 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The dystonias are a group of disorders characterized by excessive involuntary muscle
contractions leading to abnormal postures and/or repetitive movements. There are many …

The focal dystonias: current views and challenges for future research

HA **nah, A Berardelli, C Comella… - Movement …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The most common forms of dystonia are those that develop in adults and affect a relatively
isolated region of the body. Although these adult‐onset focal dystonias are most prevalent …

Clinical practice guideline: hoarseness (dysphonia)(update)

RJ Stachler, DO Francis, SR Schwartz… - … –Head and Neck …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective This guideline provides evidence-based recommendations on treating patients
who present with dysphonia, which is characterized by altered vocal quality, pitch, loudness …

EFNS guidelines on diagnosis and treatment of primary dystonias

A Albanese, F Asmus, KP Bhatia… - European Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives: To provide a revised version of earlier guidelines published in 2006.
Background: Primary dystonias are chronic and often disabling conditions with a …

Clinical practice guideline: hoarseness (dysphonia)

SR Schwartz, SM Cohen, SH Dailey… - … –Head and Neck …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: This guideline provides evidence-based recommendations on managing
hoarseness (dysphonia), defined as a disorder characterized by altered vocal quality, pitch …

Vocal feminization for transgender women: current strategies and patient perspectives

HT Kim - International journal of general medicine, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Voice feminization for transgender women is a highly complicated comprehensive transition
process. Voice feminization has been thought to be equal to pitch elevation. Thus, many …

Blepharospasm, oromandibular dystonia, and meige syndrome: clinical and genetic update

H Ma, J Qu, L Ye, Y Shu, Q Qu - Frontiers in neurology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Meige syndrome (MS) is cranial dystonia characterized by the combination of upper and
lower cranial involvement and including binocular eyelid spasms (blepharospasm; BSP) …

Abnormal activation of the primary somatosensory cortex in spasmodic dysphonia: an fMRI study

K Simonyan, CL Ludlow - Cerebral cortex, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Spasmodic dysphonia (SD) is a task-specific focal dystonia of unknown pathophysiology,
characterized by involuntary spasms in the laryngeal muscles during speaking. Our aim was …

Medical and surgical treatments for dystonia

HA **nah - Neurologic clinics, 2020 - neurologic.theclinics.com
The dystonias are defined by excessive muscular contraction producing involuntary
abnormal movements. 1 The clinical appearance of abnormal movements in the dystonias …

Expert recommendations for diagnosing cervical, oromandibular, and limb dystonia

G Defazio, A Albanese, R Pellicciari, CL Scaglione… - Neurological …, 2019 - Springer
Background Diagnosis of focal dystonia is based on clinical grounds and is therefore open
to bias. To date, diagnostic guidelines have been only proposed for blepharospasm and …