Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A research team has published a randomized clinical trial demonstrating for the first time that a multidisciplinary approach integrating specific physiotherapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy is effective in improving the symptoms and physical aspects of the quality of life of patients with functional movement disorders. The study, published in the journal JAMA Neurology, was led...
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Gene mutations from patients with debilitating seizure and movement disorder created in mice
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IMAGE: MICE GENETICALLY ENGINEERED TO CARRY MUTATIONS THAT MAKE THE KCNMA1 ION CHANNEL MORE ACTIVE (LEFT) ARE HUNCHED AND IMMOBILIZED AFTER A STRESS TEST WHICH TRIGGERS INVOLUNTARY IMMOBILITY; NORMAL MICE (MIDDLE) SHOW TYPICAL MOUSE BEHAVIOR, AND THOSE WITH A MUTATION CAUSING REDUCED KCNMA1 ION CHANNEL ACTIVITY APPEAR RESTLESS. CREDIT:...
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ADHD medicine may treat symptoms of genetic movement disorder in children, University of Maryland School of Medicine study finds
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Using a common attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medication appears to help manage the symptoms of a rare and currently difficult to treat genetic movement disorder primarily found in children, according to a new study from a University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researcher Andrea Meredith, PhD, and her...