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ReviewExperimental brain research2020

Delineating the electrophysiological signature of dystonia.

Anna Latorre, Lorenzo Rocchi, Kailash P Bhatia

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Review in Experimental brain research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. An Exploratory, Randomized, Double-Blind Clinical Trial of Dipraglurant for Blepharospasm.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2024
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  2. Polyelectromyography Under Propofol to Differentiate Functional from Idiopathic Dystonia: A Pilot Study.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2026
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  3. Pathophysiology of dystonia: Through the lens of Mark Hallett.Clinical parkinsonism & related disorders · 2026
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  6. Thalamic deep brain stimulation improves movement in a cerebellar model of lesion-based status dystonicus.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025
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  8. Brain network pathophysiology in dystonia.Dystonia (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025
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  10. EEG-based sensorimotor neurofeedback for motor neurorehabilitation in children and adults: A scoping review.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024
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  20. Dystonia and Cerebellum: From Bench to Bedside.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Anna LatorreDepartment of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, WC1N 3BG, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7103-5209
Lorenzo RocchiDepartment of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, WC1N 3BG, UK.
Kailash P BhatiaDepartment of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, WC1N 3BG, UK. k.bhatia@ucl.ac.uk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the last 30 years, the concept of dystonia has dramatically changed, from being considered a motor neurosis, to a pure basal ganglia disorder, to finally reach the definition of a network disorder involving the basal ganglia, cerebellum, thalamus and sensorimotor cortex. This progress has been possible due to the collaboration between clinicians and scientists, and the development of increasingly sophisticated electrophysiological techniques able to non-invasively investigate pathophysiological mechanisms in humans. This review is a chronological excursus of the electrophysiological studies that laid the foundation for the understanding of the pathophysiology of dystonia and delineated its electrophysiological signatures. Evidence for neurophysiological abnormalities is grouped according to the neural system involved, and a unifying theory, bringing together all the hypothesis and evidence provided to date, is proposed at the end.

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DystoniaDystonic DisordersBasal GangliaCerebellumHumansThalamusCerebellumDystoniaElectrophysiologyInhibitionPlasticity

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