Associations between Lyme disease and certain neurodegenerative diseases have been proposed, but supportive evidence for an association is lacking. Similar geographic distributions would be expected if 2 conditions were etiologically linked. Thus, we compared the distribution of Lyme disease cases in the United States with the distributions of deaths due to Alzheimer disease, amyotrophic latera...

1 PARKINSONIAN GAIT 2 3 4 5 6 7 Catherine Cho, Mikhail Kunin, Koji Kudo, Yasuhiro Osaki, C Warren Olanow, 8 Bernard Cohen, and Theodore Raphan 2, 1 9 10 11 12 13 14 From the Dept. of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, 15 10029, USA, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, City University of New York 16 (Brooklyn College and Graduate Center), Brooklyn, New York 112...

We assessed degree of Parkinson disease motor symptom improvement with medication among subjects enrolled in an ongoing, population-based study in Central California. The motor section of the unified Parkinson disease rating scale (UPDRS) was performed on subjects in both OFF and ON medication states, and difference between these scores was used as an indicator of symptomatic benefit. Higher OF...

Neuere Neuroleptika wie z.B. Aripiprazol (Abilify® u.a.) können die bei Morbus Parkinson verwendeten Dopaminagonisten zu einem Verlust der Impulskontrolle (mit Spiel- oder Kaufsucht, Hyperphagie Hyper-sexualität) führen.

O presente artigo propõe o desenvolvimento de um utensílio eletrônico que ajudará na alimentação com mais autonomia aos portadores da doença Parkinson. A gradativa dificuldade dos movimentos corporais e tremor nas extremidades distais do corpo, são características visíveis maioria pacientes desse mal. (SVEINBJORNSDOTTIR, 2016). simples ato levar copo à boca se torna extremamente difícil por con...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Increased echogenicity of the substantia nigra is a typical transcranial sonography finding in Parkinson disease. Experimental software for digital analysis of the echogenic substantia nigra area has been developed. The aim of this study was to compare the evaluation of substantia nigra echogenicity by using digital analysis with a manual measurement in patients with Park...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a 10-week exercise therapy regimen on activities of daily living (ADL) and perceived health status in patients with Parkinson disease. METHODS Twenty-four Parkinson's disease patients entered into the study. Participants were allocated into the experimental (n = 12) or control group (n = 12). ADL was assessed using the Short Pa...

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since its first description of botulism toxicity in 1820s, specific formulations of botulinum neurotoxin (bont) have been introduced with different clinical benefits. however, there is increasing number of adverse events reported to food and drug administration. this report presents the case of 62-year-old woman with parkinson’s disease who received bont injections to treat painful spasticity i...