Abstract: Purpose:Musician’s dystonia (MD) is a task-specific movement disorder related to extensive expert music performance training. Similar to other forms of focal dystonia, MD involves sensory deficits and abnormal patterns of sensorimotor integration. The present study investigated the impaired cortical sensorimotor network of pianists who suffer from MD by employing altered auditory and tactile feedback during scale playing with multichannel EEG. Methods:9 healthy professional pianists and 9 professional pianists suffering from right hand MD par...
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Topics: 
Audiology
Neuroscience
Physical medicine and rehabilitation