Brain Structural Changes in Focal Dystonia-What About Task Specificity? A Multimodal MRI Study.

Aleksandra TomićFederica AgostaElisabetta SarassoMarina SvetelNikola KresojevićAndrea FontanaElisa CanuIgor PetrovićVladimir S KostićMassimo Filippi

Published in: Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society (2020)

TSD and NTSD are characterized by opposite alterations of the main cortical and subcortical sensorimotor and cognitive-controlling brain structures, suggesting the possible presence of different pathophysiological and/or compensatory mechanisms underlying the complexity of the two clinical phenotypes of focal dystonia. © 2020 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.

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