Browsing by Subject "Parkinson disease"
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Avaliação das atividades da vida diária dos pacientes com doença de Parkinson submetidos a cirurgia estereotáxica
(Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2002-06-01)OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of stereotactic surgery on daily activities of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. METHOD: Thirty patients with idiopathic PD were evaluated before surgery and one, three, six and twelve ...
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Balance versus resistance training on postural control in patients with Parkinson's disease: a randomized controlled trial
(Edizioni Minerva Medica, 2017)BACKGROUND: Evidences have shown that physiotherapy programs may improve the balance of individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD), although it is not clear which specific exercise program is better. AIM: The aim of this ...
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Deep brain stimulation of the inferior colliculus: A possible animal model to study paradoxical kinesia observed in some parkinsonian patients?
(Elsevier B.V., 2015-02-15)The inferior colliculus (IC) plays an important role in the normal processing of the acoustic message and is also involved in the filtering of acoustic stimuli of aversive nature. the neural substrate of the IC can also ...
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Deglutição de parkinsonianos pré e pós riboflavina: queixa, aspectos funcionais e impacto na vida diária
(Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), 2009-01-28)Objetivo: verificar a relação entre queixa, aspectos funcionais da deglutição e impacto na qualidade de vida referente à voz e à deglutição, em pacientes portadores da doença de Parkinson, submetidos à administração de ...
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Dopamine transporter imaging in clinically unclear cases of parkinsonism and the importance of Scans Without Evidence of Dopaminergic Deficit (SWEDDs)
(Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2012-09-01)The clinical diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD) is susceptible to misdiagnosis, especially in the earlier stages of the disease. Recently, in vivo imaging techniques assessing the presynaptic dopamine transporter (DAT) ...
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Effect of riluzole on dyskinesia and duration of the ON state in Parkinson disease patients - A double-blind placebo-controlled pilot study
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004-01-01)The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of riluzole on dyskinesia and the duration of the ON state in patients with Parkinson disease (PD). the authors studied 16 PD patients with levodopa-induced dyskinesia. ...
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Effects of Allogeneic Bone Marrow Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Therapy on Voiding Function in a Rat Model of Parkinson Disease
(Elsevier B.V., 2014-03-01)Purpose: Cellular therapy induced transient urodynamic improvement in a rat model of Parkinson disease in which bladder dysfunction was noted after unilateral injection of 6-hydroxydopamine into the medial forebrain bundle. ...
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Effects of reserpine on the plus-maze discriminative avoidance task: Dissociation between memory and motor impairments
(Elsevier B.V., 2006-11-29)We investigated the effects of reserpine (0.1-0.5 mg/kg) on the performance of mice in the plus-maze discriminative avoidance task (DAVT), which simultaneously evaluates memory and motor activity. All doses induced memory ...
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Estimulação cerebral contínua (DBS) talâmica para controle do tremor
(Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2002-06-01)PURPOSE: We present our results in 4 patients with tremor, in whom electrodes (uni and bilateral) for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) were implanted in the ventral intermediate nucleus (VIM) of the thalamus. METHOD: Four ...
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Exposure to pesticides and heterozygote genotype of GSTP1-Alw26I are associated to Parkinson's disease
(Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2013-07-01)Objective This study aimed to analyze the frequency of GSTP1-Alw26I polymorphism and to estimate its association with toxic substances in Parkinson's disease (PD). Methods A study group with 154 patients - subdivided into ...
