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Mapping the Neuroanatomy of Dystonia Using Causal Brain Lesions

2025-12-11 neurology Title + abstract only
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Dystonia is one of the most prevalent movement disorders, but its neural substrates have remained enigmatic despite decades of research. Brain lesions leading to dystonia offer unique causal inference that could lend insight into the neural networks driving the disorder. Here, we studied the published cases of lesions causing dystonia to a variety of different body parts (n=179) and used lesion network mapping to test whether lesion locations mapped to a common brain network. Specificity was inv...

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