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Disorganized sensorimotor integration in mutation-positive myoclonus-dystonia: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.
Archives of neurology - 1 Apr 2010
Beukers Richard J, Foncke Elisabeth M J, van der Meer Johan N, Nederveen Aart J, de Ruiter Michiel B, Bour Lo J, Veltman Dick J, Tijssen Marina A J
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BACKGROUND: Myoclonus-dystonia is an autosomal dominantly inherited movement disorder clinically characterized by myoclonic jerks and dystonic postures or movements of the upper body. Functional imaging studies in other, mainly heterogeneous groups of dystonia do agree on dysfunction of the striato-pallido-thalamo-cortical circuit. OBJECTIVE: To study cerebral activation patterns with functional magnetic...
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