Hemidystonia
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1. Contribuição da experiência percepto-motora para o desempenho de habilidades manuais em lactentes, crianças e jovens com incapacidades / Contribution of perceptual-motor experience to the performance of manual skills in infants, children and youngsters with disabilities
As ações manuais voluntárias sobre objetos emergem durante o primeiro semestre de vida dos lactentes, expressando-se inicialmente como ações exploratórias e evoluindo para ações de manipulação direcionadas à utilização funcional dos objetos. Seu desempenho é modulado pela habilidade motora dos membros, pela experiência na tarefa de alcançar e
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 17/12/2012
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2. Hemidystonia: a report of 22 patients and a review of the literature.
Hemidystonia defined as involuntary, sustained posturing of the unilateral arm, leg, and face was studied in 12 male and 10 female patients. Hemidystonia was caused by cerebrovascular disease in eight patients, perinatal trauma or childhood injury in four, head trauma and its sequelae in three, neuronal storage disorders in two, neurodegenerative disease in
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3. Paroxysmal hemidystonia induced by prolonged exercise and cold.
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4. Chronic hemidystonia following acute dystonic reaction to thiethylperazine.
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5. Progressive hemi-dystonia due to focal basal ganglia lesion after mild head trauma.
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6. Hemi-dystonia due to focal basal ganglia lesion after head injury and improved by stereotaxic thalamotomy.
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7. Hemi-dystonia secondary to localised basal ganglia tumour.
An 8-year-old boy with an 18 month history of left limb hemi-dystonia due to a right lenticular nucleus astrocytoma originating in the putamen is reported. Subsequent neuropathological study demonstrated that the tumour was mainly localised to the right lenticular nucleus, with cystic necrosis in the infero-lateral putamen. Solid tumour also infiltrated the
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8. Evaluation of the effect of treatment on movement disorders in astrocytomas of the basal ganglia and the thalamus.
Twenty patients with movement disorders associated with astrocytomas (grade I-IV according to the WHO tumour classification) of the basal ganglia and the thalamus were evaluated for the effects of treatment. Five patients had more than one movement disorder when the histological diagnosis was verified by stereotactic biopsy. Twelve had tremors, eight hemidys
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9. Dystonia in progressive supranuclear palsy.
OBJECTIVES: To document the nature, distribution, and frequency of dystonic symptoms in progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). METHODS: Charts and videotapes of all clinically diagnosed patients with PSP seen between 1983 and 1993 were reviewed and the occurrence, nature, and distribution of all dystonic symptoms were recorded. RESULTS: Of 83 identified cases