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Articles
Explaining
Stiff
Person
Syndrome
Stiff-person
Syndrome
Kathleen
M Shannon
Sudden
spasms
following
gradual
lordosis—the
stiff-person
syndrome
Robin
K Wilson
and Beth
B.
Murinson
Stiff
Person
Syndrome
(Updated
March
20,
2006)
Nancy
Rodgers-Neame,
MD
The
Stiff-Person
Syndrome:
An
Autoimmune
Disorder
Affecting
Neurotransmission
of -Aminobutyric
Acid
Moderator:
Lucien M. Levy, MD,
PhD; Discussants:
Marinos C. Dalakas, MD;
and Mary Kay Floeter, MD,
PhD.
Review
of 23 patients
affected
by the
stiff
man
syndrome:
clinical
subdivision
into
stiff
trunk
(man)
syndrome,
stiff
limb
syndrome,
and
progressive
encephalomyelitis
with
rigidity
(article
abstract)
R
A
Barker,
T Revesz,
M Thom,
C D
Marsden,
P Brown
PubMed,
National
Library
of
Medicine
A
list of
many
published
articles
with
some
available
abstracts.
(Type in
the
words
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Stiffman
Syndrome
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or
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Stiff
Person
Syndrome
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in the
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STIFF-PERSON
SYNDROME;
SPS
OMIM
Online
Mendelian
Inheritance
in Man
Johns
Hopkins
University
(Clicking
on the
light
bulbs
links to
related
PubMed
abstracts.)
Stiffman
(Stiffperson)
Syndrome
(A
detailed
outline
of
symptoms,
variants,
treatments,
and
diagnostic
testing.)
Stiff
man
syndrome
presenting
with low
back
pain
A
Bastin,
V Gurmin,
R
Mediwake,
J Gibbs,
H Beynon
Stiff-man
Neurology
Home
Page
(Yale
University
site)
Anti–Glutamic
Acid
Decarboxylase
Antibodies
in the
Serum
and
Cerebrospinal
Fluid
of
Patients
With
Stiff-Person
Syndrome
Correlation
With
Clinical
Severity
Goran
Rakocevic,
MD;
Raghavanpillai
Raju
PhD;
Marinos
C.
Dalakas,
MD
Stiff
Person Syndrome
Causes
muscle
stiffness
and
spasms
Mary
Kugler,
R.N.
Specific
phobia
is a
frequent
non-motor
feature
in stiff
man
syndrome
P
Henningsen
and H-M
Meinck
(PDF
file)
Helpful
Links
MEDLINE
Plus
Drug
Information
(A good
site to
look up
medication.)
Medical
Dictionary
Online
(Helpful
site to
understand
medical
terminology.)
National
Center
For
Complimentary
&
Alternative
Medicine
(Be
an informed
consumer.
"Natural"
does not equate
to medically safe.)
Free
Publications
IG
Living
(An
informative
source
for
those
who
receive
infusions
of
immune
globuline
(gammaglobulin)
for the
treatment
of SPS,
published
bimonthly.)
Neurology
Now
(A
bimonthly
publication
dealing
with
many
issues
of
neurological
disorders.)
Knowledge
is
power. ~Francis
Bacon~
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difficulties
are easy
when
they are
known. ~William
Shakespeare~
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