Researchers have led a clinical trial of a drug that mimics the effects of alcohol in more than 100 patients with laryngeal dystonia, a neurological condition that causes involuntary muscle spasms in ...

Sodium oxybate provided temporary relief for laryngeal dystonia patients who were alcohol-responsive. The neurologic disorder causes laryngeal muscle spasms, leading to a chronically strained voice.

Imagine your doctor prescribing you a shot of vodka or whiskey to bring you some relief. Well, a new study out of Boston shows the promise of an alcohol-mimicking drug for patients with the ...

Laryngeal dystonia (LD), a rare neurological disease that significantly impacts a person's ability to speak due to uncontrollable vocal cord spasms, can have a debilitating effect on a person's social ...

In 2003, Medtronic first received a humanitarian green light from the FDA to offer its deep brain stimulation implants to ...

Dystonia is a neurological disorder causing involuntary muscle contractions and abnormal postures. Botulinum toxin (e.g., Botox) is the gold-standard, first-line treatment for focal dystonias, which ...

July 27, 2012 — Compared with those taking a placebo, almost twice as many patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) prescribed an oral cannabis extract reported relief from muscle stiffness, a new study ...

Benign essential blepharospasm (BEB), a form of focal dystonia, is a disorder of involuntary spasms involving the eyelid protractor muscles. First reported in Western medical literature in 1857, BEB ...

Sodium oxybate is the first oral treatment for laryngeal dystonia to show efficacy at providing temporary relief for debilitating symptoms that impact speaking, according to the results of a Mass Eye ...