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Alexander Schmidt
Researcher at University of Lübeck
Publications - 34
Citations - 1706
Alexander Schmidt is an academic researcher from University of Lübeck. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dystonia & Cervical dystonia. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 31 publications receiving 1555 citations. Previous affiliations of Alexander Schmidt include Hanover College.
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Superior tactile performance and learning in professional pianists: evidence for meta-plasticity in musicians.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied psychophysically tactile spatial acuity as an indirect marker of cortical changes in professional pianists and non-musician control subjects using a simultaneous two-point discrimination paradigm.
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Mutations in THAP1 (DYT6) and generalised dystonia with prominent spasmodic dysphonia: a genetic screening study.
Ana Djarmati,Susanne A. Schneider,Katja Lohmann,Susen Winkler,Heike Pawlack,Johann Hagenah,Norbert Brüggemann,Simone Zittel,Tania Fuchs,Aleksandar Rakovic,Alexander Schmidt,Hans-Christian Jabusch,Robert A. Wilcox,Vladimir S. Kostic,Hartwig R. Siebner,Eckart Altenmüller,Alexander Münchau,Laurie J. Ozelius,Christine Klein +18 more
TL;DR: Although mutations in THAP1 might have only a minor role in patients with different, but mainly focal, forms of dystonia, they do seem to be associated with early-onset generalised dySTONia with spasmodic dysphonia.
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Whispering dysphonia (DYT4 dystonia) is caused by a mutation in the TUBB4 gene
Katja Lohmann,Robert A. Wilcox,Susen Winkler,Alfredo Ramirez,Alfredo Ramirez,Aleksandar Rakovic,Jin-Sung Park,Björn Arns,Thora Lohnau,Justus L. Groen,Meike Kasten,Norbert Brüggemann,Johann Hagenah,Alexander Schmidt,Frank J. Kaiser,Kishore R. Kumar,Kishore R. Kumar,Katja Zschiedrich,Daniel Alvarez-Fischer,Eckart Altenmüller,Andreas Ferbert,Anthony E. Lang,Alexander Münchau,Vladimir S. Kostic,Kristina Simonyan,Marc Agzarian,Laurie J. Ozelius,Antonius P. M. Langeveld,Carolyn M. Sue,Marina A. J. Tijssen,Christine Klein +30 more
TL;DR: A study was undertaken to identify the gene underlying DYT4 dySTONia, a dominantly inherited form of spasmodic dysphonia combined with other focal or generalized dystonia and a characteristic facies and body habitus in an Australian family.
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Focal dystonia in musicians: Treatment strategies and long‐term outcome in 144 patients
Hans-Christian Jabusch,Dorothea Zschucke,Alexander Schmidt,Stephan U. Schuele,Eckart Altenmüller +4 more
TL;DR: The long‐term outcome of 144 musicians with focal dystonia after treatment with botulinum toxin, trihexiphenidyl, pedagogical retraining, Pedagogical Retraining, ergonomic changes, or nonspecific exercises on the instrument is presented.
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Clinical spectrum of Kufor-Rakeb syndrome in the Chilean kindred with ATP13A2 mutations.
Maria I. Behrens,Maria I. Behrens,Norbert Brüggemann,Pedro Chana,Pablo Venegas,Marianne Kägi,Teresa Parrao,Teresa Parrao,Patricia Orellana,Cristian Garrido,Cecilia V. Rojas,Jan Hauke,Eric Hahnen,Rafael González,Nicolás Seleme,Verónica Fernández,Alexander Schmidt,Ferdinand Binkofski,Detlef Kömpf,Christian Kubisch,Johann Hagenah,Christine Klein,Alfredo Ramirez +22 more
TL;DR: The clinical features of the original Chilean family with Kufor‐Rakeb syndrome (KRS) that led to the discovery of the ATP13A2 gene at the PARK9 locus are reported, suggesting that KRS might belong to the family of neurodegenerative diseases associated with brain iron accumulation.