Functional Dystonia: Differentiation From Primary Dystonia and Multidisciplinary Treatments.

ABSTRACT: Dystonia is a common movement disorder, involving sustained muscle contractions, often resulting in twisting and repetitive movements and abnormal postures. Dystonia may be primary, as the sole feature (isolated) or in combination with other movement disorders (combined dystonia), or as one feature of another neurological process (secondary dystonia). The current hypothesis is that dystonia is a disorder of distributed brain networks, including the basal ganglia, cerebellum, thalamus and the cortex resulting in abnormal neural motor programs. In comparison, functional dystonia (FD) may resemble other forms of dystonia (OD) but has a different pathophysiology, as a subtype of functional movement disorders (FMD). FD is the second most common FMD and amongst the most diagnostically challengin

SUBMITTER: Frucht L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7894256 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature