Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston ... 2 Except for botulinum toxin in patients with cervical dystonia and high-dose ...

Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston ... 2 Except for botulinum toxin in patients with cervical dystonia and high-dose ...

3 Dystonia may be either acute (eg, an oculogyric crisis secondary to drug administration) or chronic. Chronic dystonia can occur either locally (eg, writer's cramp, blepharospasm) or systemically as ...

Focal dystonia is localized to a single body part and cervical dystonia (torticollis) is the most common presentation of focal dystonia, often leading to painful twisting movements of the head and ...

Other symptoms of dystonia include twisting of the neck (torticollis) or body (axial dystonia), head tremor (cervical dystonia), uncontrolled blinking of the eyes (blepharospasm), difficulty ...

The objective was to assess whether polymorphisms in the dopamine receptor and transporter genes are associated with development of primary cervical dystonia. A case-control allelic association study ...

bcm.edu Background There is limited information on the phenomenology, clinical characteristics and pathophysiology of alleviating manoeuvres (AM), also called ‘sensory tricks’ in cervical dystonia (CD ...

"There's a lot of interest from the dystonia community, and we get many calls from patients asking, "When will this drug be available? How can I have a prescription?'" Laryngeal dystonia ...

Indeed, the first double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of BTX in cranial-cervical dystonia was conducted at Baylor and the findings were used to obtain the initial approval for BTX by the Food and ...

1 Department of Pediatric Emergency, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey 2 Department of Pediatrics ... children were treated with parenteral diphenhydramine successfully. Conclusion ...

Two Kolkata men in their 60s, one battling Parkinson's disease and the other cervical dystonia ... He was also on botox therapy and medication before he underwent DBS. After the procedure ...