Sodium oxybate provided temporary relief for laryngeal dystonia patients who were alcohol-responsive. The neurologic disorder causes laryngeal muscle spasms, leading to a chronically strained voice.

World championships silver medalist and two-time Olympian Kara Goucher announced today that she has been diagnosed with runner's dystonia. "For the past year I've been quietly battling for my health," ...

A randomised crossover trial shows that zonisamide significantly improves motor symptoms and related disability in adults with myoclonus dystonia. Myoclonus dystonia is very rare, and Marie Vidailhet ...

Chances are you have never heard of dystonia because it is a rare disorder. Yet here, just in the Puget Sound area, there are probably 80 to 100 people who suffer regularly — often silently — from ...

Living life while battling a movement disorder is not at all easy. Be it Dystonia or Parkinson’s disease, every disorder ...

For the first time, researchers have shown that, in patients with a type of movement disorder known as dystonia, a particular pattern of brain activity is linked to both the severity of symptoms and ...

Two patients with primary generalized dystonia successfully treated with bilateral pallidal deep brain stimulation (DBS) continued to experience relief of symptoms for at least 2 months after active ...

Dystonia affects more than 500,000 people across Europe. Globally, it is the third most common movement disorder after Parkinson's disease and essential tremor. In patients with dystonia, the balance ...

Telegraph photo by DEAN SHALHOUP Participants in Sunday's Nashua Dystance4Dystonia Walk head down the trail at Mine Falls Park at the start of the second annual event. Organized by Merrimack resident ...

GRANT, Mich. -- Megan Wirts' lips are her canvas and bright red lipstick is her paint. It's safe to say that Wirts, who is a mother of two, loves makeup. But putting on that makeup takes Wirts a long ...

"He could not sit on a chair, he had to lie down in a bed or on the floor. He could not write his name on a piece of paper. The poor boy was basically wheelchair bound," Michele Tagliati, M.D., FAAN, ...