background: parkinson's disease (pd) is a neurodegenerative disorder impairing motor, verbal and other abilities. visual evoked potential (vep) assessment is a useful method for analysis of visual system and its function. the present study was designed in order to evaluate whether vep changes are associated with pd. m aterials and methods: in the present study, 100 subjects encompassing 40 pati...

This work focuses on the design and implementation of a New Modified Repetitive Control Strategy (NMRCS) for position control in real-time AC servo motor system. The dynamic second order transfer function model of the system is derived and the model parameters are identified using experimental data. Based on the model parameters, the conventional PD controller parameters are computed by optimiz...

The aim of this study was to investigate lexical tone production in Cantonese speakers associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD speakers). The effect of intonation on the production of lexical tone was also examined. Speech data was collected from five Cantonese PD speakers. Speech materials consisted of targets contrasting in tones, embedded in different sentence contexts (initial, medial and f...

Genetic polymorphisms have been shown to be involved in dopaminergic neurotransmission. This may influence susceptibility to Parkinson's disease (PD). We performed a case-control study of the association between PD susceptibility and a genetic polymorphism of MAOB and COMT, both separately and in combination, in Iranians. The study enrolled 103 Iranian patients with PD and 70 healthy individual...

Little is known about the potential synergistic effect of comorbid psychological distress (PD) and uncontrolled asthma (UA) on productivity loss. We estimated the productivity loss associated with the combination of these two potentially preventable conditions in employed adults with asthma. A population-based random sample of 300 adults with asthma in British Columbia, Canada, was prospectivel...

BACKGROUND Vitamin D insufficiency and serum calcium disturbance have been reported to be more common in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients than in healthy control subjects, which may be due to a chronic disease or reduced mobility contributes to these relatively disturbances. Because of the high-vitamin D insufficiency in our population, we aimed to compare a biochemical levels which are relate...

In this paper, an intelligent robust position controller for permanent-magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) servo drives is proposed. The intelligent robust position controller consists of a two-degrees-offreedom integral plus proportional & rate feedback (2DOF I-PD) controller in addition to an on-line trained neural-network model-following controller (NNMFC). This controller, 2DOF I-PD NNMFC, comb...

BACKGROUND Constipation is a prominent lower gastrointestinal tract dysfunction that occurs frequently in Parkinson's disease (PD). OBJECTIVE To investigate colonic transport and dynamic rectoanal behaviour during filling and defecation in patients with PD. METHODS Colonic transit time (CTT) and rectoanal videomanometry analyses were performed in 12 patients with PD (10 men and 2 women; mea...