title: What is dystonia?
abstract: 1. Dystonia affects 20,000 people in Britain; it presents in almost any part of the body, and can become a chronic progressive disease. Dystonia can have an hereditary route, or an environmental cause. 2. Most dystonias are incurable but their symptoms can be treated. 3. Dystonias are often mistakenly thought to have psychological rather than pathological origin.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Crabb
mesh_terms: D004421:Dystonia / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D007980:Levodopa / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D007980:Levodopa