Association of pain in Parkinson’s disease with anxiety, depression and sleep quality: a cross-sectional study
Objective: To investigate the association of pain in Parkinson's disease (PD), including its clinical and descriptive subtypes, with anxiety, depression and sleep quality. Background: Pain is a common non-motor…E-counselling to movement disorder callers in Africa
Objective: Providing online counselling service to Movement Disorder patients. Background: This paper will deal with online counselling delivered to Movement Disorder callers. Helpline Mauritius (www.helplinemauritius.org)…Impact of self-efficacy education on physical and psychosocial functioning in newly-diagnosed Parkinson patients
Objective: To evaluate whether this program improves physical and psychosocial functioning in newly-diagnosed persons with Parkinson's disease (PWP) over the 12-month period of the intervention…Correlation between neuro-behavioral symptoms, cognition and gait in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB)
Objective: To determine the prevalence of neurobehavioral disturbances and their relationship to gait and cognitive impairment in DLB. Background: The recent literature has conceptualized that…Are limbic and cognitive effects on balance in Parkinson’s disease equal?
Objective: The main objective of this study was to evaluate: (i)whether highly anxious PD (HA-PD) have a reduced capacity for information processing compared to PD…Impact of the combined depletion of monoamines on the effectiveness of deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus
Objective: To investigate the involvement of combined depletions of dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin in the manifestation of motor and non-motor deficits and their impact on…Anxiety and cognition are associated with dopaminergic dysfunction in de novo Parkinson’s disease
Objective: To explore the relationships between nigrostriatal dysfunction and both neuropsychiatric (including anxiety, depression and apathy) and cognitive symptoms in newly diagnosed, drug-naive Parkinson's disease…Neuropsychological safety of bilateral pallidal (GPi) deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson’s disease (PD) under general anesthesia
Objective: To evaluate neuropsychological outcome of bilateral GPi DBS carried out under general anesthesia using a combination of direct anatomical targeting and intraoperative computed tomography…Screening for neuropsychiatric symptoms in Parkinson’s disease
Objective: To determine the convergent validity of the screening questions included in instructions to patients for Part 1A of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder…Suggested protocol for electroconvulsive therapy for depression in a Parkinson’s disease patient with a deep brain stimulator: A case report
Objective: To report an evidence for safety of ECT in patients with DBS in place. Background: We report a case of bilateral electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)…
Abstracts from the International Congress of Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders.