Neuroacanthocytosis is a heterogeneous group of disorders which result in progressive neurodegeneration, predominantly of the basal ganglia, and erythrocyte acanthocytosis. We report a case of neuroacanthocytosis with typical phenotype of choreoacanthocytosis. A 40 year male presented with features of chorea with orofaciolingual dystonia producing eating and speech difficulties. There were feat...

We aimed to study the attitude of Italian neurologists in use conventional MRI patients with idiopathic adult-onset focal dystonia. Patients were included Dystonia Registry by experts working different centers. was available for 1045 1471 (71%) analysis. Using logistic regression analysis, we found that more likely be performed cervical dystonia, spasmodic dysphonia, or non-task-specific upper ...

introduction:dystonia is a disorder of movement caused by various etiologies. laryngeal dystonia is caused by the spasm of laryngeal muscles. it is a disorder caused by vocal fold movement in which excessive adduction or abduction of the vocal folds occurs during speech. the pathophysiology of this type of dystonia is not fully known. some researchers have suggested that basal ganglia structure...

Late-onset dystonia occurs after long-term antipsychotic treatment or discontinuation of treatment. Being young, male gender, mental retardation, and mood disorder are risk factors. By considering the dystonic complaints psychotic symptoms patient who had a diagnosis schizoaffective risperidone 8 mg/day tablet use for 3 months, it was planned to continue with clozapine. When did not improve, bo...

eating disorders are common psychological/psychosomatic disorders that cause disturbance in physical and mental health and quality of life. binge eating disorder, in spite of being the most prevalent eating disorder, has not been largely investigated. in this article, we discuss the definition, classification, epidemiology, and physiopathology of different eating disorders, and then we focus on...

little is known about the results of pallidal deep brain stimulation (dbs) in dyt6 dystonia. this will be the first report of dyt6 dystonia treated with pallidal dbs from iran. a 21 years old male patient with dyt6 dystonia underwent bilateral deep brain stimulation. the target of dbs was the sensorimotor region of the posteroventralglobuspallidusinternus (gpi). dbs parameters included an ampli...

  Background : Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the globuspallidusinternus (GPi) is recommended as a promising technique for the management of the primary generalized dystonia (PGD) with DYT1 gene mutation. We present the first report of DBS results in Iranian patients with DYT1 positive PGD.   Methods : Nine patients who suffered from severely disabling DYT1 positive PGD consecutively were recr...

Some patients with dystonic movements and postures not known to be caused by environmental or degenerative disorders can be segregated from classical-appearing idiopathic torsion dystonia on the basis of distinctive clinical and pharmacologic features. Many of them should be considered within the family of dystonia, as clinical variants of idiopathic torsion dystonia, while others are better cl...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of deep brain stimulation (DBS) on reducing dystonia and disability in adults with cerebral palsy (CP) and to compare the therapeutic outcomes between primary dystonia patients and CP patients over two years after bilateral pallidal DBS. METHODS Five patients with primary dystonia and seven CP patients with dystonia were recruited. All subjects received DBS...

BACKGROUND In oromandibular dystonia (OMD) abnormal repetitive contractions of masticatory, facial, and lingual muscles as well as the presence of orobuccolingual (OBL) dyskinesias may interfere with the appropriate performance of tasks such as chewing and swallowing leading to significant dysphagia and weight loss. We present here the clinical characteristics and treatment variables of a serie...