Dystonia.

Roll D - Dystonia. The following contents list and description is taken from the Institute of Neurology cinefilm catalogue. "Four cases are used to illustrate the abnormal movements and postures which are characteristic of this condition. Despite the movements fine manipulative tasks are seen to be well executed. The effect on gait and climbing stairs is shown. The film ends with a severely affected patient who is confined to a wheel chair (7 min.) / Torsion dystonia: Four patients are shown with either generalised or focal, severe or mild dystonia. The effect on gait and on the ability to write are well illustrated along with the devices patients used to overcome their disability (5 min.) / Torsion dystonia: Sixteen patients with dystonia are shown. They are presented in five groups: symptomatic (including a case of Hallervorden-Spatz Disease), dystonia musculorum deformans, generalized, a case with spontaneous recovery and finally a group showing the effect of drug and surgical therapy (24 min.) / Spasmodic torticollis: The film incorporates clips of a number of patients showing the various features associated with this condition. Lateral rotation and flexion of the neck, mobils spasm and retrocollis are all illustrated as is the association in a percentage of cases with essential tremor (5 min.) / Spasmodic torticollis - treated by thalamotomy: Two patients with severe spasmodic torticollis are shown. The condition was cured by bilateral stereotactic lesions in the postero-inferior part of the ventro-lateral nucleus of the thalamus. The surgeon was Professor Valentine Logue (10 min.)"