Psychiatric Symptoms in Women with Focal Cervical Dystonia - Exploring New Pathophysiological Pathways

So far there is not much research considering female sex as a risk factor for developing focal cervical dystonia and concomitant psychiatric symptoms such anxiety. New proposes ideas of CD baseline pathophysiology targeting neurobiological mechanisms gamma aminobutyric acid GABAergic function underlying sexual dimorphism an intrinsic the disease itself. Our examines connection between motor non-motor in patients suffering from their response to treatment, cit- ing available literature hypothesising whether it can be linked previously described alterations GABA levels.