Bilateral pallidal deep-brain neurostimulation (DBS) has been shown to improve motor symptoms and overall quality of life in patients with severe primary generalized dystonia, but the long-term ...

June 25, 2008 (Chicago, Illinois) — Twenty-six patients with genetically confirmed DYT1 dystonia had improvement in their motor signs with pallidal deep-brain stimulation (DBS) for at least 3 years ...

June 17, 2009 — Three-year follow-up from a randomized trial of pallidal stimulation for generalized and segmental dystonia shows benefit is maintained in these patients, and those with generalized ...

Geneva, Switzerland, 4 September 2013 - Addex Therapeutics (ADXN.SW), a leading company pioneering allosteric modulation-based drug discovery and development announced today additional positive ...

Children and adolescents who received deep brain stimulation for generalized dystonia maintained significant symptom relief for up to eight years, according to a study presented today at the 12th ...

Two patients freed from severe to disabling effects of dystonia through deep brain stimulation therapy continued to have symptom relief for months after their devices accidentally were fully or partly ...

In the spring of 2015, I had the wonderful opportunity to join the lab of Dr. David Standaert and participate in research involving dystonia, a mysterious movement disorder characterized by ...

Generalized dystonia usually starts during childhood or the teenage years. It affects groups of muscles in different parts of the body. It usually starts in the trunk or limbs. It often results from ...

A movement-disorder neurologist, Dr. Steven Frucht sees patients with diseases ranging from Parkinson’s and dystonia to tremor and involuntary movement disorders. He counsels 20 to 30 patients with ...

The globus pallidus internus (GPi) is the target of choice for the treatment of primary generalized dystonia by deep brain stimulation. Challenging an assumption that large pulse widths (PWs) would be ...