Title |
Structural brain abnormalities in cervical dystonia
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Published in |
BMC Neuroscience, October 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2202-14-123 |
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Authors |
Tino Prell, Thomas Peschel, Bernadette Köhler, Martin H Bokemeyer, Reinhard Dengler, Albrecht Günther, Julian Grosskreutz |
Abstract |
Idiopathic cervical dystonia is characterized by involuntary spasms, tremors or jerks. It is not restricted to a disturbance in the basal ganglia system because non-conventional voxel-based MRI morphometry (VBM) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) have detected numerous regional changes in the brains of patients.In this study scans of 24 patients with cervical dystonia and 24 age-and sex-matched controls were analysed using VBM, DTI and magnetization transfer imaging (MTI) using a voxel-based approach and a region-of-interest analysis. Results were correlated with UDRS, TWSTRS and disease duration. |
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