Dystonia
Resources for Patients and Caregivers
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: 14-Dystonia-Medication-Induced
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Symptoms: uncontrolled muscle spasms and contractions after antipschotic medicines.
Progression: can become progressively worse
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Medications:
Therapies: reduce or change medications
Resources for Physicians, Counselors and Researchers
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
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- Medical cannabis oil for benign essential blepharospasm: a prospective, randomized controlled pilot studyby Ofira Zloto on January 24, 2022
CONCLUSIONS: Medical cannabis can be an effective and safe treatment for BEB as a second line after BTX-A injections when used for 3 months. No significant ocular or systemic side effects was associated with the treatment.
- Case Report: Anti-LGI1 Encephalitis Following COVID-19 Vaccinationby Yair Zlotnik on January 24, 2022
Anti-leucine rich glioma inactivated 1 (LGI1) autoimmune encephalitis (AE) is characterized by cognitive impairment or rapid progressive dementia, psychiatric disorders, faciobrachial dystonic seizures (FBDS) and refractory hyponatremia. Since December 2020, millions of people worldwide have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Several soft neurological symptoms like pain, headache, dizziness, or muscle spasms are common and self-limited adverse effects after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine....
- AOPEP Homozygous Loss-of-Function Variant in an Indian Patient With Early-Onset Generalized Dystoniaby Christina Fevga on January 24, 2022
No abstract
- Elucidating Hexanucleotide Repeat Number and Methylation within the X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism (XDP)-Related SVA Retrotransposon in TAF1 with Nanopore Sequencingby Theresa Lüth on January 21, 2022
CONCLUSIONS: Nanopore sequencing can reliably detect SVA hexanucleotide repeat numbers, methylation and, lastly, variation in the repeat motif.