Stiff Person Syndrome Articles

• Sudden spasms following gradual lordosis—the stiff-person syndrome
  Robin K Wilson and Beth B. Murinson

• Stiff Person Syndrome
  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.

• Stiff-person Syndrome with amphiphysin antibodies 
  Distinctive features of a rare disease 
  Beth B. Murinson, MS, MD, PhD
  Joseph B. Guarnaccia, MD

• 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
  R A Barker, T Revesz, M Thom, C D Marsden, P Brown

• Stiff-limb Syndrome: a case report  
  Hajjioui et al. Cases Journal 2010

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 Syndrome
  (Yale School of Medicine)

• 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)

• Two Stiff Person Cases Misdiagnosed as Conversion Disorder
  Dr. Suzan ÖZER, Dr. Halil ÖZCAN, Dr. Gülser Şenses DİNÇ, Dr. Aygün ERTUĞRUL, Dr. Murat REZAKİ, Dr. Aylin ULUŞAHİN

• Childhood Stiff Person Improved With Rituximab
  R. Fekete* and J Jankovic

• STIFF-PERSON SYNDROME; SPS  
  OMIM Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man - Johns Hopkins University 

   

  

• SearchMedica 
  A good source for recent SPS abstracts, articles, research and other relevant information.  (Type "Stiff Person Syndrome" in Search.)

• PubMed, National Library of Medicine
  A list of many published articles  with some available abstracts.
  (Type in the words -  Stiffman Syndrome  -  or  -  Stiff Person Syndrome  -  in the search field.)



Medication/Medical Dictionary

• MEDLINE Plus Drug Information

• Medical Dictionary Online



Free Publications & Online Newsletters

• 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.)

• Medscape Today
  Free online subscription to current & archived medical news and articles.



Organizations

• NORD (National Organization for Rare Diseases)

• NIH, National Institutes of Health

• NIH Office of Rare Disease Research (ORDR)

• Disability*gov

• Council For Disability Awareness

• Alliance For Patient Advocacy

• National Center For Complimentary & Alternative Medicine



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All difficulties are easy when they are known.
~William Shakespeare~

 

Listed references are provided for personal understanding and should not be considered endorsements or a substitution for professional medical care or guidance.