"Spastic dystonia" or "Inability to voluntary silence EMG activity"? Time for clarifying the nomenclature

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health, University of Genova, Italy; Department of Neuroscience, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy.
• ² Department of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health, University of Genova, Italy; Department of Neuroscience, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy. Electronic address: lucio.marinelli@unige.it.
• ³ Department of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health, University of Genova, Italy.
• ⁴ Department of Neuroscience, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy.
• ⁵ Neurology Unit, Policlinico Umberto I, Department of Neurology and Psichiatry, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
• ⁶ Academic Neurology Unit, A. Fiorini Hospital, Terracina, LT, Italy; Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Polo Pontino, Italy.