EP. 18 | MUSIC & DYSTONIA | Prof. Alexander Schmidt | DDAYS 2018

In this video Professor Alexander Schmidt talks about Musician’s Dystonia (MD), a task-specific form of isolated focal dystonia, presents with loss of voluntary motor control of extensively trained movements when a musician is playing his or her instrument. The frequency is estimated at about 1-2% among professional musicians; the disorder is highly disabling and in many cases terminates performance careers.

The pathophysiology of MD remains largely elusive. The disorder has been associated with intensive training regimes and other environmental risk factors and thus long been regarded as solely environmentally acquired. However, neurogenetic research within the past decade identified a genetic contribution to MD and the first molecular genetic risk factors of the disease. The therapy of MD is limited, therefore prevention plays an important role.

Within the lecture recent aspects of the pathophysiology, therapy and prevention of MD will be presented and discussed to improve the understanding of this complex disease.


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