Structural brain network fingerprints of focal dystonia
Chirumamilla V, Dresel C, Koirala N, Gonzalez-Escamilla G, Deuschl G, Zeuner K, Muthuraman M, Groppa S. Structural brain network fingerprints of focal dystonia. Therapeutic Advances In Neurological Disorders 2019, 12: 1756286419880664. PMID: 31798688, PMCID: PMC6859688, DOI: 10.1177/1756286419880664.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchBSP patientsHFS patientsBoNT treatmentHealthy controlsFocal dystoniaHemifacial spasmSensorimotor cortexFrontal cortexTemporal cortexStructural magnetic resonance imagingReduced connectivityGray matter volumeDifferent brain regionsSymptomatic reductionMovement disordersStructural brain networksGraph-based network analysisPatientsMatter volumeBlepharospasmDystoniaParietal cortexResonance imagingBrain regionsDecreased connectivity