Asynchronous Consultation in Movement Disorders: The East Africa Hub
Objective: Improving education and care in movement disorders through telemedicine. Background: In 2012, the Movement Disorders Society launched a telemedicine project to enable professionals from…The Adaptation of Card Games for Education in Movement Disorders
Objective: The objective of this project was to develop and use adapted interactive card games for education in movement disorders. Background: There is a clear…Educating Movement Disorders through a web based counselling service in Mauritius
Objective: The provision of solutions and relevant information to the general public and mostly to young people is the way forward to help the elderly…A Real-world Assessment of Hospitalizations Due to Falls among Patients with and without OFF episodes in Parkinson’s Disease
Objective: To investigate the association between “OFF” episodes and hospitalizations due to falls among patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) in a real-world setting. Background: Quantitative…Evaluating the Knowledge, Practice and Experience about Management of Parkinson’s Disease among Physiotherapists in Ghana: A Cross sectional Survey
Objective: To identify the level of Parkinson's disease (PD)-specific knowledge about the clinical manifestations, evidence-based practice, skills and experience in the management of PD among…Knowledge of Parkinson’s Disease in Urban Population of Kyrgyz Republic
Objective: To assess public knowledge of Parkinson's disease (PD) in an urban population in Kyrgyz Republic. Background: Poor awareness and knowledge regarding PD among the…The establishment of Deep Brain Stimulation Nurse Association (DBSNA) in United Kingdom (UK)
Objective: This is a qualitative analysis in the establishment of DBSNA for specialist nurses working in neuromodulation in the UK. Background: Surgical movement disorder nurses…Public Awareness on Parkinson’s disease in Urban Central Asia
Objective: To assess public knowledge on PD in the two largest Central Asian countries, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Background: Public awareness of Parkinson’s disease (PD) is…Studying genes involved in abnormalities of the basal ganglia and iron homeostasis using gene co-expression network analysis
Objective: To unravel the disease mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA) and to identify potential novel disease genes. Background: NBIA is clinically and…Hereditary spastic paraplegia presenting as limb dystonia with a novel SPG7 mutation
Objective: We present a case of a patient who presented with limb dystonia and was found to have HSP associated with a previously unreported compound…
Abstracts from the International Congress of Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders.