Intrafamilial heterogeneity of facial hyperkinesias: Chance association of tics, cranial dystonia, and Huntington's disease?

Movement Disorders

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 370-372

  Müller, Jörg ^a   Wenning, Gregor K ^a   Wissel, Jörg ^a   Poewe, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEPHAROSPASM; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRADYKINESIA; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DYSTONIA; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FACE DISORDER; GAIT DISORDER; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HYPERKINESIA; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TIC;

ADULT; ATROPHY; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COGNITION DISORDERS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; DYSTONIC DISORDERS; FACIAL MUSCLES; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; HYPERKINESIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SKULL; TIC DISORDERS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0035297119     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.1058     Document Type: Article

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