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Cynthia Comella is a Senior Professor at Rush University, where she specializes in neurology, movement disorders, and clinical neuroscience. Her research focuses on cervical dystonia, tardive dyskinesia, and Parkinson’s disease, with particular emphasis on botulinum toxin therapeutics, motor disorder phenotyping, and the neural mechanisms underlying anxiety and sleep disturbances in dystonia. Her recent publications (2024–2025) include validation of the Clinician’s Tardive Inventory, comparative analyses of segmental versus multifocal isolated dystonias, and imaging studies linking anxiety to cervical dystonia onset. She received a 2017 award of $644,030 for objective phenotyping in cervical dystonia, reflecting her leadership in translational clinical research and international collaborations.
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