Experience of pallidal deep brain stimulation (DBS) in dystonia at a tertiary care centre in India
Objective: The therapeutic role of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) has expanded for severe primary and secondary dystonias. Till date, only a few centres in India…Assessing vestibular function in individuals with cervical dystonia and the effects of botulinum toxin treatment
Objective: To determine if individuals with cervical dystonia have altered vestibular function compared to unaffected individuals, and whether botulinum toxin treatment alters those variables. Background:…Acute movement disorders in Tunisian childhood
Objective: To describe clinical, imaging and therapeutic features in 80 children with acute movement disorders. Background: Acute movement disorders are usually misdiagnosed in childhood. Our…Multicenter report of clinical use of a non-motor symptom questionnaire for craniocervical dystonia: The DNMS quest
Objective: To validate a non motor symptom (NMS) questionnaire in patients with craniocervical dystonia (CCD). Background: We have reported the clinical use of a Dystonia…Digitally captured Archimedes spiral indices correlate with clinical assessment of dystonia severity
Objective: To determine whether digitized spiral analysis captures severity of dystonia in comparison to motor scores from the clinical gold standard, the Burke-Fahn-Marsden rating scale…Chewing-induced blepharospasm in Parkinson’s disease
Objective: Report and discuss a rare presentation of BS. Background: Dystonia is described in untreated Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and is also one of the…Adult onset Niemann-Pick type C: 24 month follow-up on miglustat
Objective: To present a rare case of adult onset NPC patient and pointing out varying response of her distinct symptoms on long term follow up…Development of a tool for assessment of embarrassment due to dystonia
Objective: To develop a self assessment scale for quantitative measurement of embarrassment in patients having dystonia. Background: Patients suffering from movement abnormalities like dystonia frequently…Seated balance is impaired in patients with idiopathic cervical dystonia
Objective: To investigate whether seated balance is impaired in patients with idiopathic Cervical Dystonia (CD). Background: Idiopathic CD is a movement disorder in which involuntary…Combined pallidal and thalamic stimulation for multifocal primary dystonia with prominent writers’ cramp
Objective: When a patient presents with both writer's cramp and other dystonic symptoms, it is unclear which target should be chosen. Multifocal DBS is a…
Abstracts from the International Congress of Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders.