September 5, 2025

DMA Winner 2025, Dr. Ahmet Kaymak Receives the David Marsden Award

Our congratulations to Dr. Ahmet Kaymak, from the BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Italy who has been selected as winner of the David Marsden Award 2025 for his paper: Spiking Patterns in the Globus Pallidus Highlight Convergent Neural Dynamics across Diverse Genetic Dystonia Syndromes Edwige Ponseel, President of Dystonia Europe said “The Dystonia Europe patient…

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September 5, 2025

It’s Dystonia Awareness Month, and as always, we have lots of activities planned!

WEBINARS There is one webinar planned this month: ‘DBS Select: An Interactive Experience’ will be held on Wednesday, September 10 from 18.00-19.30 hrs CET. DBS Select is an educational tool designed to better inform patients and caregivers about deep brain stimulation (DBS) – a technique widely used to treat movement disorders, such as dystonia. Join Dr….

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August 27, 2025

DBS Select – A Dystonia Europe Webinar – Sep 10, 2025

On Wednesday, 10 September, 2025, from 18.00 – 19.30hrs CET, Dystonia Europe, in association with Health House and DBS Select will hold an informative webinar. The webinar will feature speakers Dr. Alexandra Boogers (Leuven, Belgium) and Dr. Harith Akram (London, UK), who will introduce the audience to ‘DBS Select’- an educational tool created to better…

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August 3, 2025

Expanding Options for Dystonia Treatment in DBS: Insights from an International Survey- Voice to the Authors

Alternative Deep Brain Stimulation Targets in the Treatment of Isolated Dystonic Syndromes: A Multicenter Experience-Based Survey. Professors Krauss, Cif, Limousin and Hariz (well-known experts in DBS treatment for Dystonia for two decades) conducted an international survey (a total of 42 questions), involving 49 specialists from 28 medical centers across 13 countries, shedding light on how…

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