Changing the Brain through Therapy for Musicians' Hand Dystonia
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Changing the brain through therapy for musicians' hand dystonia.
Focal hand dystonia is a disorder in which sensory and motor anomalies emerge that appear to be grounded in maladaptive routes of cortical plasticity. Remodeling cortical networks through sensory-motor retuning (SMR), we achieved long-term reduction in the symptoms of focal hand dystonia. Magnetoencephalography confirmed that SMR modified the representational cortex of the fingers, whereby the ...
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splint) movement sequences and passages from their repertoire that had tended to generate dystonic movements in the past. All patients showed improvement without the splint at the end of treatment. The DES scores are given in the figure. The ratings on the scale range from: 0=dystonia as bad as at its worst, 1=slightly improved, 2=moderately improved, 3=almost normal, and 4=normal. A one-way an...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0077-8923
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1360.028