Dystonic Disorders

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A novel presentation of DYT 16: acute onset in infancy and association with MRI abnormalities. 
  • Acute dystonic reaction with moderate-dose ziprasidone. 
  • Child Neurology: A young child with an undiagnosed case of dystonia responsive to l-dopa. 
  • Deep Brain Stimulation for Pediatric Dystonia. 
  • Defining research priorities in dystonia. 
  • Epileptic encephalopathy with features of rapid-onset dystonia Parkinsonism and alternating hemiplegia of childhood: a novel combination phenotype associated with ATP1A3 mutation. 
  • Evaluation and treatment of dystonia. 
  • Extraocular muscle dystonia due to acquired (non-Wilsonian) hepatocerebral degeneration. 
  • Functional Genomic Analyses of Mendelian and Sporadic Disease Identify Impaired eIF2α Signaling as a Generalizable Mechanism for Dystonia. 
  • Functional evidence implicating a novel TOR1A mutation in idiopathic, late-onset focal dystonia. 
  • Intractable Blepharospasm Treated with Bilateral Pallidal Deep Brain Stimulation. 
  • Limited regional cerebellar dysfunction induces focal dystonia in mice. 
  • Mouse model of rare TOR1A variant found in sporadic focal dystonia impairs domains affected in DYT1 dystonia patients and animal models. 
  • Oculogyric crises secondary to lamotrigine overdosage. 
  • Suitability of Automated Writing Measures for Clinical Trial Outcome in Writer's Cramp. 
  • Technology of deep brain stimulation: current status and future directions. 
  • The expanding spectrum of ATP1A3 related disease. 
  • Treatment of diaphragmatic dystonia with pallidal deep brain stimulation. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Calakos, Nicole, Lincoln Financial Group Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology, Duke Science & Society