This paper proposes a neuromusculoskeletal (NMS) model to predict individual muscle force during elbow flexion and extension. Four male subjects were asked to do voluntary elbow flexion and extension. An inertial sensor and surface electromyography (sEMG) sensors were attached to subject's forearm. Joint angle calculated by fusion of acceleration and angular rate using an extended Kalman filter...

arkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease relating to progressive degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantianigra. The diagnostic criteria of PD were defined in a clinico-pathological study proposed by United Kingdom Parkinson’s Disease Society (UKPDS) in 1988. The consequence of degeneration of these neurons is depletion of dopamine in the central nervous system. There...

OBJECTIVE Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is a serious iatrogenic condition. This report reviews the world literature to characterize the syndrome and evaluate factors that promote early detection and effective intervention. METHOD The review identified 77 NMS cases (49 males, 27 females, 1 gender unknown); ages ranged from 0.9 to 18 years (mean 14.8 +/- 3.96). Univariate and multiple re...

BACKGROUND The payment structure for the New Medicine Service (NMS) in England is based on the assumption that 0.5% of prescription items dispensed in community pharmacies are eligible for the service. This assumption is based on a theoretical calculation. This study aimed to find out the actual proportion of prescription items eligible for the NMS dispensed in community pharmacies in order to ...

BACKGROUND The recently postulated "disease spreading hypothesis" has gained much attention, especially for Parkinson's disease (PD). The various non-motor symptoms (NMS) in neurodegenerative diseases would be much better explained by this hypothesis than by the degeneration of disease-specific cell populations. Motor neuron disease (MND) is primarily known as a group of diseases with a selecti...

This study examined the relationship among personal network characteristics, gratification-utilities and the frequency of use of three interactive communication technologies (landline telephone, email and instant messaging).A conceptual framework is presented, providing a rationale for three hypotheses predicting positive relationships between personal network characteristics (size, intimacy an...

The risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients with Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) and those on antipsychotic medications is well established. We present here a case whereby the patient had NMS and developed extensive deep venous thrombosis (DVT) despite being on standard DVT Prophylaxis. Our case illustrates that empiric intravenous heparin for the initial few days after the onset ...

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS), a potentially fatal adverse reaction to neuroleptics, is known to occur more often in the initial stage of antipsychotic treatment. We describe a patient with chronic schizophrenia who, in a few days after the addition of antituberculotic drugs to his antipsychotic regimen, developed probable NMS without pyrexia. We reasoned that rifampin, a strong hepatic ...

Acute pancreatitis, neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) and epileptic seizures are all known to be rare complications of clozapine-treatment (Steinert et al. 2011, Tenner 2014, Belvederi Murri et al. 2015). For amisulpride, only seven cases with NMS (Belvederi Murri et al. 2015) including one case with seizures (Musshoff et al. 2013) have been described yet. Recently, via a German pharmacovigi...