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The cognitive features of idiopathic and DYT1 dystonia.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 1 Oct 2017
Jahanshahi Marjan, Torkamani Mariam
Abstract excerpt
Dystonia is a common movement disorder. In this paper, we review the literature on cognitive function in idiopathic and DYT1 dystonia. In idiopathic or DYT1 dystonia, cognition is largely intact with only isolated executive dysfunction. Dystonia patients also have increased temporal and spatial discrimination thresholds, considered endophenotypes of the disorder because deficits are also shown by unaffected...
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