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…Retrospective study on a cohort of 285 PD patients: Does the side of onset influence the global clinical phenotype?
Objective: To describe demographic and clinical characteristics of a cohort of 285 consecutive PD patients and to understand the phenotypic differences of right onset (RPD)…Recognise and treat functional myoclonus: Case report
Objective: FND account for 15% of all new patients seen in general neurology referral. Despite the burden in terms of prevalence and disability, evidence regarding…Using saccades as an early test of levodopa treatment in Parkinson’s Disease
Objective: It is important to know what potential confounding effects the medications used to treat Parkinson’s disease (PD) have on eye movement, in order to…Postural Sway Complexity as a Measure of Motor Functionality in Fragile X Premutation Carriers
Objective: To assess changes in motor functionality of FMR1 premutation carriers at risk of developing Fragile X Associated Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome(FXTAS), through traditional and complexity-based measures…
Abstracts from the International Congress of Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders.