'It's much harder than I thought': facilitating a singing group for people with Parkinson's disease [PDF]
A university-based, international research project investigating the effects of regular singing group activities for people with Parkinson’s disease provided a unique opportunity to capture the lived experience of three facilitators of Australian-based ...
Bartlett, Irene, Forbes, Melissa
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Statin usage, vascular diagnosis and vascular risk factors in Parkinson's disease [PDF]
Background and aims: Vascular disease is a common comorbidity in Parkinson’s disease patients. Statins are potentially neuroprotective for Parkinson’s disease through non-vascular mechanisms.
Cheng, Kelvin K.W. +3 more
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Protective potential of glucagon like peptide 2 (GLP-2) against the neurodegeneration [PDF]
Neurodegeneration consists in loss of neuron specific types, pattern and distribution, leading to progressive dysfunctions of the central nervous system.
Amato, Antonella, Mulè, Flavia
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Physiotherapy intervention in Parkinson's disease: systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Objective To assess the effectiveness of physiotherapy compared with no intervention in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.
Clarke, Carl E. +10 more
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Identifying Parkinson’s Patients: A Functional Gradient Boosting Approach [PDF]
Parkinson’s, a progressive neural disorder, is difficult to identify due to the hidden nature of the symptoms associated. We present a machine learning approach that uses a definite set of features obtained from the Parkinson’s Progression Markers ...
Dhami, D. S. +3 more
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Mild Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson's Disease - What Is It? [PDF]
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Mild cognitive impairment is a common feature of Parkinson’s disease, even at the earliest disease stages, but there is variation in the nature and severity of cognitive involvement and in the risk of conversion to Parkinson’s disease ...
Costantini, A, Schrag, A, Weil, RS
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Need for Complementary Approach in Primary Parkinson’s Disease: Future Healthcare Perspective
A compilation of varied presentation of symptoms of a Parkinson’s patient is as follows:
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Quality of life in Parkinson’s disease: Italian validation of the Parkinson’s Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39-IT) [PDF]
Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the 39-item Parkinson’s Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39) to the Italian culture was performed by Oxford University Innovation in 2008, but this version has never been validated.
Berardi, Anna +8 more
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Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Speech Disorder Signal in Parkinson’s Disease
Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) can be used as a decision support system by physicians in the diagnosis and treatmentof disordered speech especially those who specialize in neurophysiology diseases. Parkinson's disease (PD) is aprogressive disorder of the nervous system that affects movement.
Heba M. Afify, Basma Ahmed
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Extended Timed Up and Go assessment as a clinical indicator of cognitive state in Parkinson\u27s disease [PDF]
Objective: To evaluate a modified extended Timed Up and Go (extended-TUG) assessment against a panel of validated clinical assessments, as an indicator of Parkinson’s disease (PD) severity and cognitive impairment. Methods: Eighty-seven participants with
Anderton, R +7 more
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