Diagnostic Impact of Movement Disorders Subspecialty Consultations at a VA Hospital
Objective: Review the impact of subspecialty care on diagnosis patterns of patients with parkinsonism at the Jesse Brown VA (JBVA), a VA Consortium center. Background:…Network analysis of symptoms in a Parkinson patient using experience sampling data: An n=1 study
Objective: To identify longitudinal associations between motor symptoms and mood states in a patient with Parkinson’s disease. Background: Experience Sampling consists of multiple repeated within-subject…Consensus for the measurement of the camptocormia angle
Objective: To define a consensus-based and clinically applicable method for measuring the camptocormia angle. Background: Camptocormia is characterized by a pathological forward bending of the…Musical sonification for the rehabilitation of Parkinsonian dysgraphia: behavioural validation
Objective: To evaluate the effects of musical sonification on handwriting performance in individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Background: Parkinsonian dysgraphia is specifically characterized by the…Maintenance of safinamide 100 mg daily long-term
Objective: Evaluating the maintenance of safinamide 100 mg daily as a long-term treatment. Background: The effects of safinamide were investigated in studies 016, 018 and…Motor and Non-motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease (PD): Which are more important?
Objective: To evaluate if motor or non-motor symptoms affect PD patients' functioning and well-being more. Background: The cardinal features of PD are motor symptoms, which…Update on Convergence Spasm: Review of Psychogenic and Organic Case Reports
Objective: The aim is to evaluate case reports and series of convergence spasm (CS). Background: CS consists of episodes of convergence of the eyes, miosis,…Physical activity in people with Parkinson’s disease: A qualitative study
Objective: This study aimed to investigate how Australians with Parkinson’s disease (PD) perceive participation in physical activity, and to identify barriers and enablers. Background: Exercise…Discrepancies in assessments of freezing of gait: Self-report, clinical, and physical therapy assessments
Objective: To investigate whether self-report, clinical, and physical therapy (PT) assessments differ in identifying freezing of gait (FOG) in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Background: Most studies…Psychosocial Impact of dysarthria: Is speech intelligibility an effective measure outcome?
Objective: To identify if intelligibility or social repercussions of dysarthria determined quality of life in patients with different kinds of movement disorders. Background: Dysarthria in…
Abstracts from the International Congress of Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders.