Relationship of 10-Meter Walk Test to balance performance in Parkinson’s disease patients as a predictor of falls
Objective: This study aimed to clarify the relationship between the 10-Meter Walk Test (10-MWT) and balance performance in PD. Background: Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD)…Approaching Health Care Shaped by Generational Expectations (The AGE Study): A perspective on technology and research
Objective: To determine if different generational groups (Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation Xers, and Millennials) have different preferences regarding healthcare system and providers, particularly their perspectives…Progressive encephalomyelitis with rigidity and myoclonus (PERM): Phenomenology, investigations and management of two recent cases
Objective: To describe the diagnosis and treatment of two cases of anti-glycine receptor antibody positive PERM Background: PERM is a life-threatening autoimmune condition, which presents…The severity of motor symptoms and depression are the higher predictor for the decrease in daily living activities independence in people with Parkinson’s disease
Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify among several motor, cognitive and mental measures which has higher power to predict the reduction in…Models of Parkinson’s disease in vitro
Objective: The problem for experimental studies of the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease is the impossibility of taking material from patients with this pathology, therefore, it…Parkinsonism with rare sequence variants in VPS35 and FBXO7 genes associated with Lewy body pathology
Objective: To detect a neuropathological background of parkinsonism associated with rare sequence variants in the VPS35 and FBXO7 genes. Background: A total of 23 gene…Has patients affected by REM sleep Behavior Disorder a specific brain glucose metabolism pattern?
Objective: This study aimed at evaluating brain glucose metabolism in patients affected by REM sleep behavior disorders (RBD) compared to Parkinson’s Disease (PD), Lewy Body…Metabolomic Profiling of Activated Microglial Cells
Objective: To investigate metabolomic changes in SIM-A9 microglia in vitro following exposure to neuroinflammatory insult using high resolution mass spectrometry. Background: Microglial cells play an…Dopaminergic stem cells reside in the rostral migratory stream
Objective: To analyze if the adult rostral migratory stream (RMS) harbors neural stem cells with the potential to create dopaminergic neurons for the olfactory bulb…Task effects on lingual kinematics in dysarthric individuals with Parkinson’s disease: Insights from two cases
Objective: The present study investigated the effects of different tasks on lingual kinematics in two individuals diagnosed with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (PD) using the electromagnetic…
Abstracts from the International Congress of Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders.