Clinical correlates of severe somnolence in Parkinson’s disease: results from an international naturalistic non-motor symptoms cohort
Objective: To compare patients with mild and severe daytime somnolence using cut-off values from item 15 of the Parkinson’s disease (PD) sleep scale (PDSS). Background:…Parkinson’s disease and progressive dysphagia – consider myasthenia gravis
Objective: We report on three consecutive patients with Parkinson’s disease, in whom myasthenia gravis turned out responsible for progressive dysphagia. Background: Swallowing dysfunction is common…The utility of post-void residual volume versus sphincter electromyography to distinguish between multiple system atrophy and Parkinson’s disease
Objective: To determine the ability of sphincter electromyography (EMG) and post-void residual urine volume (PVR) during a free-flow study and a pressure-flow study (PFS) for…Gait characteristics in Atypical Parkinsonism
Objective: We investigated gait characteristics of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and multiple system atrophy (MSA), with the aim to elucidate relatively specific disease differences in…The environmental and genetic risk factors in multiple system atrophy in a Taiwanese population
Objective: The etiology of MSA remains uncertain. Cholesterol and its metabolism derangements, α-Synuclein and CoQ2 genetic polymorphism have been disclosed to be associated with the…Rolipram, a PDE-IV inhibitor protects against experimental Parkinsonism in mice
Objective: Rolipram, a specific inhibitor of the phosphodiesterase IV (PDE IV), has recently been shown to exert neuroprotective effects in an Alzheimer transgenic mouse model…Gait impairment and cognitive changes in a case of thalamic dementia and motor neuron disease.
Objective: To describe a case of a 54-year-old woman diagnosed with atypical corticobasal syndrome (CBS). Neuropathological studies revealed that she had thalamic dementia with motor…Corticobasal degeneration and frontotemporal dementia – an overlapping continuum
Objective: This clinical case intends to highlight the continuum between frontotemporal dementia and corticobasal syndrome. Background: A substantive overlap between corticobasal degeneration and frontotemporal dementia…The Value of Follow Up: The Role of Social Work and Nursing Calls in an Interdisciplinary Home Visit Program for Advanced Parkinson’s Disease Patients
Objective: To describe nursing and social work cross-discipline efforts to improve patient care and adherence to treatment plans as part of an interdisciplinary home visit…Assisted Suicide of patients with parkinsonian syndromes in Switzerland – the need of early and continuous integration of palliative care and dignitiy therapy
Objective: To determine the prevalence of patients with parkinsonian syndromes who performed assisted suicide (AS) at DIGNITAS in Switzerland from 2006 till 2012 and to analyze…
Abstracts from the International Congress of Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders.