When Peter Cohen entered a public swimming pool recently, he was greeted with several rounds of applause. Cohen is not a person whom one would normally expect to be met with such a reception; he has ...

In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr Pankaj Agarwal, Head of the Department of Neurology at Gleneagles Hospital in Mumbai's Parel, shared, “Patients suffering from them can be quite debilitated by ...

Korea University Anam Hospital announced on the 28th that the research team led by Professor Jang Jin-woo of the Department of Neurosurgery treated a patient with dystonia using high-intensity ...

A movement-disorder neurologist, Dr. Steven Frucht sees patients with diseases ranging from Parkinson’s and dystonia to tremor and involuntary movement disorders. He counsels 20 to 30 patients with ...

Twelve-year-old Josh Gaskin walks to the front door and shakes a visitor’s hand. While this gesture would seem routine for most adolescents, two years ago it would have been impossible for Josh. By ...

Focal hand dystonia is one such neurological health problem, in which there are involuntary muscle contractions in the hand, wrist, or the entire arm. (Representative image/Freepik) The patient, a ...

An artificial intelligence tool called DystoniaBoTXNet predicted which patients with dystonia would benefit from botulinum toxin injections with 96.3% accuracy. DystoniaBoTXNet could be a tool to aid ...

Dear Dr. Donohue: I have blepharospasm. I received one kind of Botox for it. It didn’t work for me. I now receive the other kind of Botox, and it makes me functional. It wears off after five weeks.

Bilateral pallidal deep-brain neurostimulation (DBS) has been shown to improve motor symptoms and overall quality of life in patients with severe primary generalized dystonia, but the long-term ...

Carl Luepker was 10 years old when he first noticed his right hand twitching slightly when he played piano. It was like it had a mind of his own. When he was 12, doctors diagnosed him with a ...

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Bong-su] A new drug has been developed that can effectively treat dystonia, a condition in which muscles tense involuntarily due to stress and other factors, causing pain ...