Cerebral palsy affects around one in 345 children in the U.S., and more than half of them experience a problem called dystonia - involuntary and often painful muscle contractions, most commonly in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Dystonic cerebral palsy presents several challenges to successful symptom management. A pilot study of ...

Bhooma Aravamuthan, MD, DPhil, a pediatric movement disorders specialist at WashU Medicine, sees a young patient with cerebral palsy at the St. Louis Children’s Specialty Care Center in West St. Louis ...

Fewer than 500 people worldwide are known to have a rare genetic disorder called GNAO1 mutation, which disrupts brain ...

Deep brain stimulation improves movement skills and quality of life in some patients with a subtype of cerebral palsy (CP) (dystonia-choreoathetosis CP)*, and could be an effective treatment option ...

(BPT) – This article was sponsored and developed by Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. Cerebral palsy (CP) is a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting movement and posture that begins in early childhood ...

Patients in the study were implanted with pacemaker-like devices known as deep-brain stimulators made by Medtronic Inc, which helped fund the study. A team lead by Marie Vidailhet of Salpetriere ...

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Zapping the brain with a mild electrical current appears to help patients with a difficult-to-treat form of cerebral palsy, French researchers said on Wednesday. Patients in the ...