“…These findings comport well with previous reports that dystonia is not only a motor disorder, but also involves sensory symptoms [Tinazzi et al, ]. Rozanski et al also showed that the ventral globus pallidus internus, a location at which deep brain stimulation is effective for alleviating dystonia symptoms, is significantly connected to the primary somatosensory cortex [Rozanski et al, ]. Together with prior observations that (i) deficient sensorimotor integration is characteristic of individuals with dystonia [Abbruzzese and Berardelli, ], (ii) somatosensory alterations extend beyond the representation of the dystonic limb [Meunier et al, ], (iii) sensory inputs may modulate dystonic symptoms (sensory trick) [Naumann et al, ], and (iv) abnormalities of sensory processing are observed in unaffected relatives of individuals with dystonia [Walsh et al, ], the present results support the view point that somatosensory dysfunction represents a primary trait of dystonia [Meunier et al, ; Walsh et al, ].…”