Cervical dystonia with dystonic tremor: a modern view of the problem

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Abstract

One of the important areas of modern neurology is movement disorders, due to their negative impact on the daily activity and quality of life of patients. Dystonia is the third most common extrapyramidal disease. Often, dystonia is accompanied by trembling hyperkinesis, however, known data on dystonic tremor are scattered and not systematized, and its fixation causes difficulties due to the lack of clear tremorographic characteristics. Many issues of prevalence, pathophysiology, differential diagnosis with other types of tremor, as well as the effectiveness of therapy also remain insufficiently studied. This review focuses on the literature on dystonic tremor.

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Iuliia V. Buriak

St. Petersburg V.M. Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute

Author for correspondence.
Email: buryak-yulya@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1722-3000
SPIN-code: 4319-4394

junior researcher

Russian Federation, 192019, St. Petersburg, Bekhterev str, 3

Denis V. Zakharov

St. Petersburg V.M. Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute

Email: zaharov_dv@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2266-9197
SPIN-code: 6004-3364

Dr. Sci. (Med.), head of department

Russian Federation, 192019, St. Petersburg, Bekhterev str, 3

Vladimir A. Mikhailov

St. Petersburg V.M. Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute

Email: vladmikh@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7700-2704
SPIN-code: 5563-1009

Dr. Sci. (Med.), chief researcher, scientific director of the department

Russian Federation, 192019, St. Petersburg, Bekhterev street, 3

Veronika A. Bogacheva

St. Petersburg V.M. Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute

Email: ronika1988@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0878-3452
SPIN-code: 8261-5218

Cand. Sci. (Med.), research associate

Russian Federation, 192019, St. Petersburg, Bekhterev str., 3

Olga P. Zakharova

St. Petersburg V.M. Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute

Email: olganik90@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2893-3334

neurologist

192019, St. Petersburg, Bekhterev str, 3

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