Changes to Saccade Behaviors in Parkinson’s Disease Following Dancing and Observation of Dancing

Changes to Saccade Behaviors in Parkinson’s Disease Following Dancing and Observation of Dancing

BACKGROUND The traditional view of Parkinson's disease (PD) as a motor disorder only treated by dopaminergic medications is now shifting to include non-pharmacologic interventions. We have noticed that patients with PD obtain an immediate, short-lasting benefit to mobility by the end of a dance class, suggesting some mechanism by which dancing reduces bradykinetic symptoms. We have also found t...

Dancing eyes and dancing feet syndrome.

133 Introduction Opsoclonus-myoclonus is a rare neurological disorder characterised by intention tremor, unsteady gait, myoclonus and opsoclonus. Lethargy and irritability are also described. The abnormal eye movements are distinctive, being multidirectional and of high amplitude. Its recognition helps in the diagnosis of this clinical syndrome, the correct identification of which leads to the ...

Dancing to Darwin

I have been given the opportunity of a lifetime: to work with Mark Baldwin, the artistic director of Rambert Dance Company, on the creation of a novel contemporary dance piece to celebrate the life and work of Charles Darwin in his bicentennial year. The original idea came from Stephen Keynes, Chairman of the Charles Darwin Trust and one of Charles Darwin’s great grandsons, and it is he who int...

Dancing medicine.

Erratic Dancing

The problem of classifying dance songs according to rhythms has recently been introduced in [4] and [3]; in this paper, we present new efficient algorithms that take into account temporal errors, which could not be handled by the algorithms presented in [4] and [3]. We analyze and compare the running times of two algorithmic variants and furthermore show examples of their implementation.