Focal Dystonia

Focal dystonia in pianists is a task-specific movement disorder that causes loss of pianistic skills and provokes irregularities… (More)

Sensory processing is impaired in focal hand dystonia (FHD), with most previous studies having evaluated only the symptomatic… (More)

Patients with task-specific dystonia (writer's cramp) have impaired cortical inhibition likely arising from striatal dysfunction… (More)

It has been postulated that sensorimotor integration is abnormal in dystonia. We investigated changes in motor cortical… (More)

Abnormalities of the sensory system have been proposed as causative factors for dystonia By mapping the human cortical hand… (More)

In this study we have investigated the pathophysiology of two idiopathic focal dystonias: hand cramp with excessive… (More)

In this study we tested a neuroplasticity/learning origins hypothesis for repetitive strain injuries (RSIs), including… (More)

Transcranial magnetic stimulation has been used in a double pulse paradigm to investigate the excitability of intrinsic motor… (More)

The epidemiology of generalized and focal dystonias was investigated in the Rochester, Minnesota, population over the period 1950… (More)

We have examined 29 subjects with writers' cramp (and 4 with typists' and one with pianists' cramp) and have noted two major… (More)