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Section edited by Yih-Ru Wu
This section covers all types and aspects of movement disorders. Topics of include, but are not limited to, Parkinson's Disease, transcranial magnetic stimulation, spasticity, dyskinesia, movement disorders, rehabilitation and spinal cord injury.
Case report
Frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorder characterized by deficits in executive function that frequently overlaps with parkinsonism and motor n...
BMC Neurology 2017 17:186
Published on: 18 September 2017
Case report
Huntington’s disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant disorder, typically characterized by chorea due to a trinucleotide repeat expansion in the HTT gene, although the clinical manifestations of patients with juv...
BMC Neurology 2017 17:152
Published on: 8 August 2017
Case report
Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has recently been reported to be effective for truncal postural abnormalities such as camptocormia and Pisa syndrome in Parkinson’s disease. In this case report, we describe a cas...
BMC Neurology 2017 17:148
Published on: 3 August 2017
Research article
Individuals with Cerebral Palsy (CP) present with sensorimotor dysfunction which make the control and execution of movements difficult. This study aimed to verify the speed-accuracy trade-off in individuals wi...
BMC Neurology 2017 17:143
Published on: 27 July 2017
Research article
Wilson’s disease (WD) is an autosomal recessive disorder of copper metabolism resulting in multifaceted neurological, hepatic, and psychiatric symptoms. The objective of the study was to comparatively assess t...
BMC Neurology 2017 17:140
Published on: 21 July 2017
Case report
Parasomnia overlap disorder (POD) is a distinct parasomnia and characterized by concomitant manifestation of rapid-eye-movement (REM)- and non-REM (NREM)-parasomnias. Although not uncommon among patients with ...
BMC Neurology 2017 17:137
Published on: 18 July 2017
Research article
The purpose of this study was to investigate the therapeutic effects and mechanisms of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) treatment on rats following spinal cord injury (SCI).
BMC Neurology 2017 17:128
Published on: 3 July 2017
Research article
Parkinson’s disease is complicated by comorbidity and polypharmacy, but the extent and patterns of these are unclear. We describe comorbidity and polypharmacy in patients with and without Parkinson’s disease a...
BMC Neurology 2017 17:126
Published on: 1 July 2017
Case report
Rare patients have been reported who developed a mixture of gait disturbances following a focal lesion in the frontal lobe. Thus, the exact location of frontal lesion responsible for a specific gait disturbanc...
BMC Neurology 2017 17:122
Published on: 28 June 2017
Case report
Camptocormia is severe flexion of the thoracolumbar spine, exaggerated during standing and walking but minimized in supine position. Even though camptocormia is a relatively common condition during the course ...
BMC Neurology 2017 17:118
Published on: 23 June 2017
Research article
The effectiveness of creatine in treating Parkinson’s disease (PD) has not been conclusively determined. Therefore, we performed a meta-analysis to address this issue.
BMC Neurology 2017 17:105
Published on: 2 June 2017
Research article
Impulse control and related disorders (ICRDs) are clinically complications in Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, the clinical characteristics of ICRDs in Chinese PD patients were rarely reported. We aimed to e...
BMC Neurology 2017 17:98
Published on: 18 May 2017
Research article
Mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) is increasingly being used to improve outcomes such as stress and depression in a range of long-term conditions (LTCs). While systematic reviews on MBSR have taken pla...
BMC Neurology 2017 17:92
Published on: 15 May 2017
Research article
Droxidopa, a prodrug of norepinephrine, was approved for treatment of neurogenic orthostatic hypotension (nOH) due to primary autonomic disorders based on 3 randomized double-blind studies. We performed safety...
BMC Neurology 2017 17:90
Published on: 12 May 2017
Technical advance
Transcranial magnetic resonance guided focused ultrasound is an emerging technology under evaluation for treatment of essential tremor, a prevalent movement disorder. A qualitative evaluation is performed by a...
BMC Neurology 2017 17:74
Published on: 17 April 2017
Research article
Down syndrome (DS) has unique physical, motor and cognitive characteristics. Despite cognitive and motor difficulties, there is a possibility of intervention based on the knowledge of motor learning. However, ...
BMC Neurology 2017 17:71
Published on: 14 April 2017
Study protocol
Complaints of imbalance are common non-resolving signs in individuals with post-concussive syndrome. Yet, there is no consensus rehabilitation for non-resolving balance complaints following mild traumatic brai...
BMC Neurology 2017 17:41
Published on: 23 February 2017
Research article
Periodic leg movements (PLM) during sleep (PLMS) are considered strongly related to restless legs syndrome (RLS), and are associated with polymorphisms in RLS risk genes. Various software for automatic analysi...
BMC Neurology 2017 17:42
Published on: 23 February 2017
Research article
The introduction of deep brain stimulation (DBS) about 25 years ago provided one of the major breakthroughs in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, a high percentage of patients are reluctant to...
BMC Neurology 2017 17:36
Published on: 21 February 2017
Study protocol
If people with progressive neurological diseases are to avail of evidence-based rehabilitation, programs found effective in randomized controlled trials (RCT’s) must firstly be adapted and tested in clinical e...
BMC Neurology 2017 17:27
Published on: 7 February 2017
