Everyday walking with Parkinson's disease: understanding personal challenges and strategies [PDF]
PURPOSE: This qualitative study was designed to explore the personal experience of everyday walking with Parkinson's disease (PD), the challenges and the strategies employed to compensate for difficulties, to help contextualise the scientific knowledge ...
Birleson, Angela +7 more
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Neuropsychiatric disturbances in atypical Parkinsonian disorders [PDF]
Multiple system atrophy (MSA), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), and corticobasal degeneration (CBD) are the most common atypical parkinsonisms. These disorders are characterized by varying combinations of autonomic, cerebellar and pyramidal system ...
Belvisi, Daniele +6 more
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Neuron-specific enolase in the blood serum as a diagnostic marker of Parkinsonism
In the article there were presented data about the received results of immune-enzyme analysis of neuron-specific enolase among patients with Parkinsonism (52) in comparison with control group of patients with discirculatory encephalopathy without ...
F. F. Gashilova, N. G. Zhukova
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Total daily physical activity, brain pathologies, and parkinsonism in older adults.
ObjectiveWe examined the association of physical activity, postmortem brain pathologies, and parkinsonism proximate to death in older adults.MethodsWe studied the brains of 447 older decedents participating in a clinical-autopsy cohort study. We deployed
Shahram Oveisgharan +6 more
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Incident mobility disability, parkinsonism, and mortality in community-dwelling older adults.
BackgroundMobility disability and parkinsonism are associated with decreased survival in older adults. This study examined the transition from no motor impairment to mobility disability and parkinsonism and their associations with death.Methods867 ...
Shahram Oveisgharan +3 more
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Case Report: Progressive Asymmetric Parkinsonism Secondary to CADASIL Without Dementia
Parkinsonism is a rare phenotype of cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarction and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL), all of which involve cognitive decline. Normal cognition has not been reported in previous disease studies.
Weihang Guo +23 more
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Bromocriptine-associated ototoxicity [PDF]
Three patients treated with bromocriptine for chronic hepatic encephalopathy showed audiometric evidence of bilateral sensori-neural hearing-loss. Audiometrically, the hearing improved in all three patients when the bromocriptine dosage was reduced, thus
Ballantyne, J, Lanthier, PL, Morgan, MY
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Parkinson's Disease and Parkinsonism: Neuropathology [PDF]
Parkinsonism, the clinical term for a disorder with prominent bradykinesia and variable associated extrapyramidal signs and symptoms, is accompanied by degeneration of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system, with neuronal loss and reactive gliosis in the substantia nigra found at autopsy.
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Mortality in Parkinson's disease : A systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
© 2014 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Greenland S +3 more
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Modulation of Peripheral Mast Cell and Brain Microglia Axis via Kinase Inhibition
Background/Objectives: Kinase inhibition is a hot therapeutic strategy for several human diseases, including neurodegeneration. Tyrosine kinase c-KIT activates peripheral mast cells, while other kinases including Abelson (c-Abl) promotes autophagy and ...
Xiaoguang Liu +6 more
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