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…A healthy volunteer phase 1 study of RE-024, a potential phosphopantothenate replacement therapy for patients with pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration (PKAN)
Objective: To assess the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of single oral doses of RE-024 in healthy adult volunteers. Background: PKAN is a rare, autosomal recessive,…
Abstracts from the International Congress of Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders.