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A Proposed Cause, Cure, and Mechanism for Focal Task-Specific Dystonia: A Theoretical-Empirical Approach

2025-07-24

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Focal task-specific dystonia (FTSD) poses a complex interplay of maladaptive neuroplasticity and motor-circuit imbalance. Traditional theories often implicate subcortical nuclei but fail to explain why symptoms remain so tightly bound to a singular, highly practiced skill. Here, we propose that the primary driver of FTSD is a newly formed “dystonic synergy” within the primary motor cortex (M1), in which excitatory...

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Literature Corpus work: 672ca1be-95d2-5d16-b755-0a9adf6eaffa
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202507.2002.v1

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