Clinical Diagnosis and Management of DystoniaThomas T. Warner, Susan B. Bressman One hundred years have passed since the first clinical descriptions of dystonia cases appeared in the literature. In the ensuing century, the study of this protean movement disorder has undergone a turbulent evolution, with dramatic shifts in the views regarding its causation and phenomenology. Considered for a period of time as a psychological or |
Contents
Chapter 1 Diagnosis of dystonia | 1 |
Chapter 2 Epidemiology of dystonia | 15 |
Chapter 3 Overview of the genetic forms of dystonia | 27 |
Chapter 4 Pathophysiology of dystonia | 35 |
Chapter 5 Functional imaging in primary dystonia | 45 |
Chapter 6 DYT1 dystonia | 53 |
Chapter 7 Other primary generalized dystonias | 65 |
Chapter 8 Cervical dystonia | 73 |
Chapter 14 Druginduced and tardive dystonia | 149 |
Chapter 15 Paroxysmal dyskinesias | 159 |
Chapter 16 Psychogenic dystonia | 171 |
Chapter 17 Drug therapy of torsion dystonia | 183 |
Chapter 18 Botulinum toxin | 189 |
Chapter 19 Surgery for dystonia | 209 |
Chapter 20 Role of the physiotherapist | 223 |
Chapter 21 Role of the specialist dystonia nurse | 233 |
Chapter 9 Cranial dystonia | 81 |
Chapter 10 Writers cramp limb dystonia and other taskspecific dystonias | 97 |
Chapter 11 Laryngeal dystonia | 111 |
Chapter 12 Dystoniaplus syndromes | 121 |
Chaptr 13 Secondary and heredodegenerative dystonia | 131 |
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