Musician's dystonia and comorbid anxiety: Two sides of one coin?
✍ Scribed by Leonie Enders; June T. Spector; Eckart Altenmüller; Alexander Schmidt; Christine Klein; Hans-Christian Jabusch
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 354 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-3185
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Background:
Psychological abnormalities, including anxiety, have been observed in patients with musician's dystonia (MD). It is unclear if these conditions develop prior to MD or if they are psychoreactive phenomena.
Methods:
Psychological conditions were studied in 44 professional musicians with MD, 45 healthy musicians, and 44 healthy nonmusicians using the State‐Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and NEO Five‐Factor Inventory (NEO‐FFI).
Results:
Musicians with MD had significantly higher STAI state and trait anxiety scores than healthy musicians (P = .009 and P = .012, respectively) and nonmusicians (P = .013 and P = .001, respectively) and significantly higher NEO‐FFI neuroticism scores than healthy musicians (P = .018) and nonmusicians (P = .001). Duration of dystonia did not correlate with anxiety or neuroticism scores.
Conclusions:
Musicians with MD display increased levels of anxiety and neuroticism. The lack of correlation between anxiety and the duration of dystonia suggests that anxiety may not be a psychoreactive phenomenon and is consistent with the hypothesis that anxiety and MD share a common pathophysiological mechanism. © 2011 Movement Disorder Society