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View Post: NIH Awards New Grant to Develop Better Treatments for Focal Dystonias
30 Sep 2009 by DMRF  
We are pleased to tell you that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have announced the funding of a five year award aimed at forming a multicenter Dystonia Coalition to advance clinical research on primary focal dystonias. ...
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View Post: AZ about Dystonia
26 Oct 2009 by ^_^  
The dystonias are movement disorders in which abiding beef contractions account agee and repetitive movements or aberrant postures. The movements, which are automatic and sometimes painful, may affect a distinct muscle; a accumulation ...
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View Post: AGE OF AUTISM: Dr. David Gorski Jumps the Shark over Desiree ...
11 Nov 2009 by Age of Autism  
Psychogenic dystonia may closely resemble “organic” (i.e. non-psychogenic) dystonias, and in most cases only an experienced movement disorder expert can identify the subtle aspects of an individual's history and physical examination ...
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View Post: Dystonia
22 Oct 2009 by Light Yagami  
Dystonia is a neurological movement disorder in which sustained muscle contractions cause twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures. The disorder may be inherited or caused by other factors such as birth-related or other ...
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View Post: the monogenic primary dystonias
3 Jul 2009 by Muller, U.  
clinically, this group of movement disorders includes pure dystonias and dystonia plus syndromes. in addition, dyskinesias (paroxysmal dystonias), although phenotypically distinct from classical dystonias, are discussed within this ...
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View Post: How to Help People With Psychosis or Psychotic Disorders
16 Nov 2009 by admin  
Watch out for side effects of antipsychotics, eg extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) such as dystonia, akathysia, tardive dyskenesia, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, and pseudoparkinsonism. Dystonias are spasms, stiffness and contractions of ...
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View Post: Give or take?
12 Nov 2009 by Aliefka Bijlsma  
She not only has SD, but myoclonic dystonia, a term I have to look up. Most likely hereditary, some of her family members have it too. She wonders whether her sons will develop it. How old is she? 54 she says. ...
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