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Movement disorders

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.

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  1. Content type: Research article

    Parkinson’s Disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, characterized by symptoms of motor impairment, resulting from the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the midbrain, however non-neuronal symptoms are...

    Authors: Anu Planken, Lille Kurvits, Ene Reimann, Liis Kadastik-Eerme, Külli Kingo, Sulev Kõks and Pille Taba

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2017 17:6

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    Depression and anxiety remain under-diagnosed and under-treated in those with neurologic diseases such as dementia or Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Our objectives were to first, to provide a synthesis of high qual...

    Authors: Zahra Goodarzi, Bria Mele, Selynne Guo, Heather Hanson, Nathalie Jette, Scott Patten, Tamara Pringsheim and Jayna Holroyd-Leduc

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2016 16:244

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  3. Content type: Research article

    Essential tremor (ET) is characterized by a frequent family history. No monogenic form of ET has been identified. We aimed at exploring ET patients to identify distinct subgroups and facilitate the identificat...

    Authors: Mathilde Renaud, Christophe Marcel, Gabrielle Rudolf, Mickaël Schaeffer, Ouhaïd Lagha-Boukbiza, Jean-Baptiste Chanson, Jamel Chelly, Mathieu Anheim and Christine Tranchant

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2016 16:238

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  4. Content type: Case report

    Myoclonus is a clinical sign characterized by sudden, brief jerky, shock-like involuntary movements of a muscle or group of muscles. Dystonia is defined as a syndrome of sustained muscle contractions, frequent...

    Authors: Guangxun Shen, Guangxian Nan, Chae-Won Shin, Hyeyoung Park, Kwee-Yum Lee and Beomseok Jeon

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2016 16:228

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  5. Content type: Technical advance

    Belly dancer’s dyskinesia is an extremely rare condition. It manifests as semicontinuous, slow, writhing, sinuous abdominal wall movements that are bothersome to the patient. Management of this condition is ex...

    Authors: Asmahan Alshubaili, Hussam Abou-Al-Shaar, Ponnusamy Santhamoorthy, Hosam Attia and Saeed Bohlega

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2016 16:226

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  6. Content type: Case report

    Rapid-onset dystonia-parkinsonism (RDP) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder that is caused by mutations in the ATP1A3 gene and is characterized by an acute onset of asymmetric dystonia and parkinsonism. To d...

    Authors: Yanqiu Liu, Yan Lu, Xinqing Zhang, Shuping Xie, Tingting Wang, Tianwen Wu and Chaoyan Wang

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2016 16:218

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  7. Content type: Case report

    In accordance with German neurosurgical and neurological consensus recommendations, lead placements for deep brain stimulation (DBS) in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) are usually performed with the pat...

    Authors: Kajetan L. von Eckardstein, Friederike Sixel-Döring, Stephan Kazmaier, Claudia Trenkwalder, Jason M. Hoover and Veit Rohde

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2016 16:216

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  8. Content type: Study protocol

    In Parkinson’s disease (PD), cognitive impairment is an important non-motor symptom heralding the development of dementia. Effective treatments to slow down the rate of cognitive decline in PD patients with mi...

    Authors: Sjors C. F. van de Weijer, Annelien A. Duits, Bastiaan R. Bloem, Roy P. Kessels, Jacobus F. A. Jansen, Sebastian Köhler, Gerrit Tissingh and Mark L. Kuijf

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2016 16:209

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  10. Content type: Research article

    Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second commonest neurodegenerative disease in developed countries. Current treatment for PD is pharmacologically focused and can have significant side-effects. There is increasi...

    Authors: Jenny Advocat, Joanne Enticott, Brooke Vandenberg, Craig Hassed, Jennifer Hester and Grant Russell

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2016 16:166

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  11. Content type: Research article

    Droxidopa is an orally active prodrug that significantly improved dizziness/lightheadedness measured using the Orthostatic Hypotension Symptom Assessment (OHSA) Item 1 in patients with neurogenic orthostatic h...

    Authors: Clément François, Gerald J. Rowse, L. Arthur Hewitt, Pamela Vo and Robert A. Hauser

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2016 16:143

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  12. Content type: Research article

    Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is the most common autosomal recessive disease in children, and the diagnosis is complicated and difficult, especially at early stage. Early diagnosis of SMA is able to improve th...

    Authors: Zhidai Liu, Penghui Zhang, Xiaoyan He, Shan Liu, Shi Tang, Rong Zhang, Xinbin Wang, Junjie Tan, Bin Peng, Li Jiang, Siqi Hong and Lin Zou

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2016 16:141

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  13. Content type: Research article

    Patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) have a higher prevalence of cardiovascular diseases compared to the healthy population. Aerobic exercise training is one of the recommended treatments. However, literatur...

    Authors: Der-Sheng Han, Ming-Yen Hsiao, Tyng-Guey Wang, Ssu-Yuan Chen and Wei-Shiung Yang

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2016 16:142

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  14. Content type: Research article

    Our study was aimed to validate a modified RBD (REM sleep behavior disorder) single question (RBD1Q-C), study the prevalence of probable RBD (pRBD) in a rural community based on RBD1Q-C and investigate the associ...

    Authors: Jian-Fang Ma, Miao-Miao Hou, Hui-Dong Tang, Xiang Gao, Liang Liang, Li-Fang Zhu, Yi Zhou, Sheng-Yu Zha, Shi-Shuang Cui, Juan-Juan Du, Gen Li, Jun Liu and Sheng-Di Chen

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2016 16:123

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  15. Content type: Research article

    Hemifacial spasm (HFS) is a disabling neurological condition. Vascular tortuosity in HFS patients has not been quantified objectively and its relationship with hypertension and posterior fossa volume (PF) is u...

    Authors: Evan Cyril Edmond, Samantha Xue-Li Sim, Hui-Hua Li, Eng-King Tan and Ling-Ling Chan

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2016 16:120

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  16. Content type: Research article

    This multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled study assessed the efficacy of rotigotine transdermal patch on apathy and motor symptoms in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD).

    Authors: Robert A Hauser, Jaroslaw Slawek, Paolo Barone, Elisabeth Dohin, Erwin Surmann, Mahnaz Asgharnejad and Lars Bauer

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2016 16:90

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  17. Content type: Research article

    There is limited knowledge concerning fall-related activity avoidance in people with Parkinson’s disease (PD); such knowledge would be of importance for the development of more efficient PD-care and rehabilita...

    Authors: Manzur Kader, Susanne Iwarsson, Per Odin and Maria H. Nilsson

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2016 16:84

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  18. Content type: Research article

    The aim of this study was to develop an assessment tool for activities of daily living (ADL) from the perspective of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and examine the validity and reliability of the asses...

    Authors: Su-Yun Lee, Sung Kwan Kim, Sang-Myung Cheon, Jung-Wook Seo, Min Ah Kim and Jae Woo Kim

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2016 16:73

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  19. Content type: Study protocol

    Our previous randomized double-blind study showed that drinking hydrogen (H2) water for 48 weeks significantly improved the total Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) score of Parkinson’s disease (PD)...

    Authors: Asako Yoritaka, Takashi Abe, Chigumi Ohtsuka, Tetsuya Maeda, Masaaki Hirayama, Hirohisa Watanabe, Hidemoto Saiki, Genko Oyama, Jiro Fukae, Yasushi Shimo, Taku Hatano, Sumihiro Kawajiri, Yasuyuki Okuma, Yutaka Machida, Hideto Miwa, Chikako Suzuki…

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2016 16:66

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  20. Content type: Research article

    Patients affected by progressive long-term neurological conditions might benefit from specialist palliative care involvement. However, little is known on how neurology and specialist palliative care services i...

    Authors: Liesbeth M. van Vliet, Wei Gao, Daniel DiFrancesco, Vincent Crosby, Andrew Wilcock, Anthony Byrne, Ammar Al-Chalabi, K. Ray Chaudhuri, Catherine Evans, Eli Silber, Carolyn Young, Farida Malik, Rachel Quibell and Irene J. Higginson

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2016 16:63

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