Cargando…

How Many Dystonias? Clinical Evidence

Literary reports on dystonia date back to post-Medieval times. Medical reports are instead more recent. We review here the early descriptions and the historical establishment of a consensus on the clinical phenomenology and the diagnostic features of dystonia syndromes. Lumping and splitting exercis...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Albanese, Alberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5289979/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28217105
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2017.00018
_version_ 1782504568977883136
author Albanese, Alberto
author_facet Albanese, Alberto
author_sort Albanese, Alberto
collection PubMed
description Literary reports on dystonia date back to post-Medieval times. Medical reports are instead more recent. We review here the early descriptions and the historical establishment of a consensus on the clinical phenomenology and the diagnostic features of dystonia syndromes. Lumping and splitting exercises have characterized this area of knowledge, and it remains largely unclear how many dystonia types we are to count. This review describes the history leading to recognize that focal dystonia syndromes are a coherent clinical set encompassing cranial dystonia (including blepharospasm), oromandibular dystonia, spasmodic torticollis, truncal dystonia, writer’s cramp, and other occupational dystonias. Papers describing features of dystonia and diagnostic criteria are critically analyzed and put into historical perspective. Issues and inconsistencies in this lumping effort are discussed, and the currently unmet needs are critically reviewed.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-5289979
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2017
publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-52899792017-02-17 How Many Dystonias? Clinical Evidence Albanese, Alberto Front Neurol Neuroscience Literary reports on dystonia date back to post-Medieval times. Medical reports are instead more recent. We review here the early descriptions and the historical establishment of a consensus on the clinical phenomenology and the diagnostic features of dystonia syndromes. Lumping and splitting exercises have characterized this area of knowledge, and it remains largely unclear how many dystonia types we are to count. This review describes the history leading to recognize that focal dystonia syndromes are a coherent clinical set encompassing cranial dystonia (including blepharospasm), oromandibular dystonia, spasmodic torticollis, truncal dystonia, writer’s cramp, and other occupational dystonias. Papers describing features of dystonia and diagnostic criteria are critically analyzed and put into historical perspective. Issues and inconsistencies in this lumping effort are discussed, and the currently unmet needs are critically reviewed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5289979/ /pubmed/28217105 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2017.00018 Text en Copyright © 2017 Albanese. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Neuroscience
Albanese, Alberto
How Many Dystonias? Clinical Evidence
title How Many Dystonias? Clinical Evidence
title_full How Many Dystonias? Clinical Evidence
title_fullStr How Many Dystonias? Clinical Evidence
title_full_unstemmed How Many Dystonias? Clinical Evidence
title_short How Many Dystonias? Clinical Evidence
title_sort how many dystonias? clinical evidence
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5289979/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28217105
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2017.00018
work_keys_str_mv AT albanesealberto howmanydystoniasclinicalevidence