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ArticleMovement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society2023

Temporal Signature of Task-Specificity in Isolated Focal Laryngeal Dystonia.

Stefan K Ehrlich, Giovanni Battistella, Kristina Simonyan

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Article in Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Brain-Computer Interface Improves Symptoms of Isolated Focal Laryngeal Dystonia: A Single-Blind Study.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2026
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  5. Brain network pathophysiology in dystonia.Dystonia (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stefan K EhrlichDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Giovanni BattistellaDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Kristina SimonyanDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7444-0437
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary · US

Funding

Understanding disorder-specific neural pathophysiology in laryngeal dystonia and voice tremorP50DC019900 · NIDCD · MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY · PI Kristina Simonyan · 2021 to 2026
$11.9M
Imaging genetics of spasmodic dysphoniaR01DC011805 · NIDCD · MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY · PI Kristina Simonyan · 2012 to 2026
$8.8M
Voice tremor in spasmodic dysphonia: central mechanisms and treatment responseR01DC012545 · NIDCD · MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY · PI SIMONYAN, KRISTINA · 2012 to 2021
$5.2M
Genetic Variants in Craniofacial DystoniasR01DE030464 · NIDCR · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI NUTAN SHARMA · 2022 to 2026
$3.0M
Clinical Validation of DystoniaNet Deep Learning Platform for Diagnosis of Isolated DystoniaR01NS124228 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY · PI Kristina Simonyan · 2022 to 2026
$2.7M
Brain Networks in DystoniaR01NS088160 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY · PI SIMONYAN, KRISTINA · 2015 to 2019
$2.4M
Adaptive closed-loop brain-computer interface therapeutic intervention in laryngeal dystoniaR01DC019353 · NIDCD · MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY · PI SIMONYAN, KRISTINA · 2021 to 2025
$1.8M
CYTOCHROMES P450 AND OLFACTORY CHEMORECEPTIONR03DC001990 · NIDCD · WADSWORTH CENTER · PI DING, XINXIN · 1993 to 1994
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND

objectiveLaryngeal dystonia (LD) is focal task-specific dystonia, predominantly affecting speech but not whispering or emotional vocalizations. Prior neuroimaging studies identified brain regions forming a dystonic neural network and contributing to LD pathophysiology. However, the underlying temporal dynamics of these alterations and their contribution to the task-specificity of LD remain largely unknown. The objective of the study was to identify the temporal-spatial signature of altered cortical oscillations associated with LD pathophysiology.

methodsWe used high-density 128-electrode electroencephalography (EEG) recordings during symptomatic speaking and two asymptomatic tasks, whispering and writing, in 24 LD patients and 22 healthy individuals to investigate the spectral dynamics, spatial localization, and interregional effective connectivity of aberrant cortical oscillations within the dystonic neural network, as well as their relationship with LD symptomatology.

resultsSymptomatic speaking in LD patients was characterized by significantly increased gamma synchronization in the middle/superior frontal gyri, primary somatosensory cortex, and superior parietal lobule, establishing the altered prefrontal-parietal loop. Hyperfunctional connectivity from the left middle frontal gyrus to the right superior parietal lobule was significantly correlated with the age of onset and the duration of LD symptoms. Asymptomatic whisper in LD patients had not no statistically significant changes in any frequency band, whereas asymptomatic writing was characterized by significantly decreased synchronization of beta-band power localized in the right superior frontal gyrus.

conclusionTask-specific oscillatory activity of prefrontal-parietal circuitry is likely one of the underlying mechanisms of aberrant heteromodal integration of information processing and transfer within the neural network leading to dystonic motor output. © 2023 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.

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DystoniaDystonic DisordersMovement DisordersBrainHumansMagnetic Resonance Imaginghigh-resolution EEGisolated dystoniatask-specificity

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PMID37489600
PMCPMC10615685
OpenAlexW4385231021

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