Ground Deformation Detected by Permanent Tiltmeters on Mt. Etna Summit: The August 23-26, 2018, Strombolian and Effusive Activity Case by Salvatore Gambino, Marco Aloisi, Giuseppe Di Grazia, Giuseppe Falzone, Angelo Ferro, Giuseppe Laudani

“…This result, related to the volcanic tremor source, points to the presence of a gas/magma reservoir feeding the Strombolian activity at 1200 m above sea level.…”
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A methodological scoping review on EMG processing and synergy-based results in muscle synergy studies in Parkinson’s disease by Valentina Lanzani, Cristina Brambilla, Alessandro Scano

“…The most evident symptom that affects all patients with Parkinson’s Disease is the impairment of motor control, including bradykinesia, tremor, joint rigidity, and postural instability. …”
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Silent Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome: A Case Report of Atypical Antipsychotic Induced Elevation of Creatinine Kinase and Altered Mental Status by Amber N. Edinoff, Hamza Mohammad-Amin, Amira S. Odisho

“…She had an intention tremor, minor muscle weakness of the lower extremities with a blood pressure of 140/100 and a pulse of 100. …”
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Oscillatory Corticospinal Activity during Static Contraction of Ankle Muscles Is Reduced in Healthy Old versus Young Adults by Meaghan Elizabeth Spedden, Jens Bo Nielsen, Svend Sparre Geertsen

“…Additionally, our data indicate a potential effect of alpha coherence and tremor on performance. These results may be instrumental in developing new interventions to strengthen sensorimotor control in elderly subjects.…”
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Characterisation of Phantom Limb Pain in Traumatic Lower-Limb Amputees by André Tadeu Sugawara, Marcel Simis, Felipe Fregni, Linamara Rizzo Battistella

“…Tingling, numbness, flushing, itchiness, spasm, tremor, and throbbing are statistically significant PLP descriptor numbers per patient predicted by above-knee amputation, prosthetic phase, higher education level, and greater PLP intensity by VAS (p<0.05). …”
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Effect of High Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Combined with Voice Training on Voice Function of Patients with Parkinson's Disease by WANG Xiaowen, ZHU Qingqing, CHEN Yan, QIAN Hong, YUAN Haixin, ZHAO Gang, LIU Jie, ZHANG Fengjiao

“…Before treatment, after treatment (after treatment for 30 days) and follow-up (30 days after the end of treatment), voice function detection and correction instrument, voice function detection and correction instrument were used to detect voice function under the framework of ICF, mainly including voice production index [(maximum phonation time, MPT), (maximum counting ability, cMCA), (fundamental frequency, F₀), (contact quotient, CQ), (contact quotient perturbation, CQP), (fundamental frequency tremor, F₀t),(frequency band energy concentration rate，Ec)] and voice quality index[Jitter, Shimmer, (normalized noise energy, NNE), F₂/u/,F₂/i/]. …”
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Cerebral Metastasis from a Previously Undiagnosed Appendiceal Adenocarcinoma by Antonio Biroli, Paolo Cipriano Cecchi, Susanne Pragal, Esther Hanspeter, Andreas Schwarz

“…We report a case of a 67-years-old male patient who presented with confusion, tremor, and apraxia. A brain MRI revealed an isolated right temporal lobe lesion. …”
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Procedural Memory: Computer Learning in Control Subjects and in Parkinson’s Disease Patients by C. Thomas-Antérion, B. Laurent, N. Foyatier-Michel, S. Laporte, D. Michel

“…Performances seemed to be heterogeneous: patients with only tremor (seven) and patients without treatment (five) performed better than others but learned less. …”
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Cannabis oil in treating Parkinson’s disease: improvement of motor and non-motor symptoms: a case report by C. T. M. I. Issa, R. D. Castro, K. L. G. D. Albuquerque

“…We present the case of a 77-year-old man diagnosed 22 years ago with PD in an advanced stage, with significant bradykinesia, tremor, and rigidity along with the inability to maintain an upright position and walk, exacerbated by a femur fracture. …”
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Intensive pharmacovigilance of Heberprot-P® in patients with diabetic foot ulcer by Annavely González Ocaña, Ana María Ramos Cedeño, Yeny Dueñas Pérez, Francisco Carlos Valladares Más, Yahima Arrechea Betancourt

“…There were 210 adverse events, which were most frequently manifested by burning and pain at the injection site, tremor and chills, especially of mild intensity (61.4%) and with a probable causal relationship (76.6%).…”
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An Ultrasound Prototype for Remote Hand Movement Sensing: The Finger Tapping Case by Stefano Franceschini, Maria Maddalena Autorino, Michele Ambrosanio, Vito Pascazio, Fabio Baselice

“…Subjects affected by neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease, often exhibit symptoms like bradykinesia, rigidity, and tremor. As a result, when these individuals perform the finger tapping task, instability in both the tap rate and finger displacement can be observed. …”
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Phenomenological Features of Concentration by A.V. Melnikov, M.G. Yusupov

“…The condition of concentration is characterized by the following main implications: in the cognitive sphere – highly focused thinking, fixation on the object of cognition, depression of speech activity; in the somatic sphere – sweating of hands, tremor of fingers, stiffness of body muscles, heart acceleration, retardation of motility, and deep breathing. …”
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A Pediatric Case of Cowden Syndrome with Graves’ Disease by Cláudia Patraquim, Vera Fernandes, Sofia Martins, Ana Antunes, Olinda Marques, José Luís Carvalho, Jorge Correia-Pinto, Carla Meireles, Ana Margarida Ferreira

“…At the age of 15, he presented with intention tremor, palpitations, and marked anxiety. On examination, he had macrocephaly, coarse facies, slight prognathism, facial trichilemmomas, abdominal keratoses, leg hemangioma, and a diffusely enlarged thyroid gland. …”
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The Effect of Visual Feedback on Writing Size in Parkinson’s Disease by Adriaan R. E. Potgieser, Elizabeth Roosma, Martijn Beudel, Bauke M. de Jong

“…Twenty-five patients with non-tremor-dominant PD without cognitive dysfunction and twenty-five age-matched controls had to write a standard sentence with and without visual feedback. …”
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Brainstem serotonin amplifies nociceptive transmission in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease by Zoé Grivet, Franck Aby, Aude Verboven, Rabia Bouali-Benazzouz, Benjamin Sueur, François Maingret, Frédéric Naudet, Thibault Dhellemmes, Philippe De Deurwaerdere, Abdelhamid Benazzouz, Pascal Fossat

“…Abstract Parkinson’s disease arises from the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta, leading to motor symptoms such as akinesia, rigidity, and tremor at rest. The non-motor component of Parkinson’s disease includes increased neuropathic pain, the prevalence of which is 4 to 5 times higher than the general rate. …”
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The added value of anosmic subtype on motor subtype in Parkinson’s disease: a pilot study by Chia-Yen Lin, Hsiao-Hui Chen, Ching-Heng Lin, Ming-Hong Chang

“…PD is commonly divided into motor subtypes, such as postural instability and gait disturbance (PIGD) and tremor-dominant PD (TDPD), but non-motor symptoms like olfactory dysfunction remain underexplored. …”
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Parkinsonism associated with prolonged unresponsive wakefulness syndrome after blunt head injury: a clinico-pathological study by Kurt A. Jellinger

“…Results: The patients, surviving either UWS recovery (n = 10) or defective minimally conscious state (MCS) (n = 5), clinically presented with severe (n = 7), moderate (n = 5), or mild (n = 3) parkinsonian symptoms mainly comprising symmetrical rigidity, amimia, hypo- / akinesia and convergence disorder, which in six patients were associated with unilateral or bilateral resting tremor. Following levodopa treatment, 11 patients showed mild to moderate improvement and four patients almost complete improvement of UWS, parkinsonism or both. …”
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Robot-assisted Neuroendoscopy: Surgeon’s Third Hand – a Proof of Concept Study by Karnam Murali, Rychen Jonathan, Guzman Raphael, Cattin Philippe C., Rauter Georg, Gerig Nicolas

“…The assistant surgeon’s task can be strenuous over time, especially in long surgeries, and unsteadiness or tremor might affect the visualization quality that the operating surgeon depends upon. …”
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Postural Stability in Parkinson’s Disease Patients Is Improved after Stochastic Resonance Therapy by Oliver Kaut, Daniel Brenig, Milena Marek, Niels Allert, Ullrich Wüllner

“…Only in the within-group analysis several items were improved after Bonferroni correction, too, rigor 41.6% (p=0.001), bradykinesia 23.7% (p=0.001), tremor 30.8% (p=0.006), and UPDRSIII sum score 23.9% (p=0.000), but did not reach the level of significance in the between-group analysis. …”
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HIV-Associated Vacuolar Myelopathy and HIV-Associated Dementia as the Initial Manifestation of HIV/AIDS by Natalia Wuliji, Matthew J. Mandell, Jason M. Lunt, Adam Merando

“…A fifty-three-year-old man presented with a six-month history of numerous falls due to progressive gait instability with associated memory loss, tremor, urinary retention, and impotence. His exam was significant for hyperreflexia and weakness in bilateral lower extremities, upgoing plantar reflex, dysmetria, and ataxic gait. …”
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