DYSTONIA 16 (disorder)

Dystonia is a brain disorder causing involuntary, often painful movements. Apart from a role for dopamine deficiency in some… (More)

Primary torsion dystonia is a movement disorder characterised by sustained or intermittent involuntary muscle contractions… (More)

Recessive DYT16 dystonia associated with mutations in PRKRA has until now been reported only in seven Brazilian patients. The aim… (More)

OBJECTIVE DYT16 is an autosomal recessive dystonia-parkinsonism due to putative mutations at PRKRA gene. The aim of this study… (More)

The designation, DYT4, was assigned to an Australian family with whispering dysphonia. The role of known causes of dystonia has… (More)

Dystonia-plus syndromes represent a heterogeneous group of diseases, where dystonia is accompanied by other neurological features… (More)

Task-specific focal upper limb dystonia can be part of the phenotypic spectrum of different types of hereditary dystonia. We… (More)

BACKGROUND Dystonia and parkinsonism may present as part of the same genetic disorder. Identification of the genetic mutations… (More)

We have read with great interest the article in The Lancet Neurology by Camargos and colleagues who describe the fi nding of… (More)

The expanding list of DYTs is an assortment of 14 (DYT5 and DYT15 are the same forms) diff erent clinically and genetically… (More)