Analysis of Connectivity in Electromyography Signals to Examine Neural Correlations in the Activation of Lower Leg Muscles for Postural Stability: A Pilot Study by Gordon Alderink, Diana McCrumb, David Zeitler, Samhita Rhodes

“…Changes in connectivity in the beta and gamma bands were found to be most significant in the muscle pairs of the back leg during a tandem stance regardless of dominant foot placement. MSC identified the MG:S muscle pair as significant for the right and left leg. …”
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Antidepressant Effects of Probucol on Early-Symptomatic YAC128 Transgenic Mice for Huntington’s Disease by Cristine de Paula Nascimento-Castro, Ana Claudia Wink, Victor Silva da Fônseca, Claudia Daniele Bianco, Elisa C. Winkelmann-Duarte, Marcelo Farina, Ana Lúcia S. Rodrigues, Joana Gil-Mohapel, Andreza Fabro de Bem, Patricia S. Brocardo

“…The motor performance and affective symptoms were monitored using well-validated behavioral tests in YAC128 mice and age-matched wild-type littermates at 2, 4, and 6 months of age, after 1, 3, or 5 months of treatment with probucol (30 mg/kg/day via water supplementation, starting on postnatal day 30). …”
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Neuroprotective effects of quercetin on hippocampal CA1 neurons following middle cerebral artery ischemia‒reperfusion in male rats: a behavioral, biochemical, and histological stud... by Mehran Mahyar, Erfan Ghadirzadeh, Pedram Nezhadnaderi, Zahrasadat Moayedi, Parniyan Maboud, Arvin Ebrahimi, Ali Siahposht-Khachaki, Narges Karimi

“…Results Compared with control rats, 5 and 10 mg/kg quercetin-treated rats presented significant improvements in brain water content, neurological function, and motor function and improved performance in the MWM and shuttle box tests. …”
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Follow-Up of Advanced Parkinson’s Disease Patients after Clinical or Surgical Emergencies: A Practical Approach by Hélio A. G. Teive, Matheus Gomes Ferreira, Carlos Henrique F. Camargo, Renato P. Munhoz

“…Patients with advanced stage Parkinson’s disease (PD) typically present with a myriad of motor and nonmotor symptoms in addition to comorbidities and, as a consequence, polypharmacy. …”
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Sex-dependent efficacy of sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor agonist FTY720 in mitigating Huntington’s disease by Jingyun Wu, Irene Santos-Garcia, Ivan Eiriz, Thomas Brüning, Aleš Kvasnička, David Friedecký, Tuula A. Nyman, Jens Pahnke

“…Huntington's disease (HD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder characterized by severe motor deficits, cognitive decline and psychiatric disturbances. …”
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Valproate Treatment in an ALS Patient Carrying a c.194G>A Spastin Mutation and SMN2 Homozygous Deletion by Lucio Tremolizzo, Gessica Sala, Elisa Conti, Virginia Rodriguez-Menendez, Antonella Fogli, Angela Michelucci, Paolo Simi, Silvana Penco, Christian Lunetta, Massimo Corbo, Carlo Ferrarese

“…The patient was started on valproic acid (VPA, 600 mg/die per os) considering the capacity of this drug of increasing survival motor neuron through an epigenetic mechanism. …”
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Administration of Sex Hormone Preparations as a Risk Factor in the Development of Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy and Biliary Sludge in Pregnant Women by Yu. B. Uspenskaya, I. V. Kuznetsova, A. A. Sheptulin, N. V. Goncharenko, A. N. Gerasimov, M. M. Amiraslanova

“…Patients with BS received treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) in a dose of 250–750 mg and choleretic herbal preparation (artichoke extract) for 2 months. …”
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Dexmedetomidine versus Dexamethasone as Perineural Adjuvants in Supraclavicular Brachial Plexus Block: An Interventional Study by Charmi Hitenbhai Shah, Jinesh Pareshbhai Kothari, Nilesh Vrajmohan Shah, Rajsi Rajan Shah, Sara Mary Thomas

“…Group 2 received the same local anaesthetic mixture with dexamethasone 8 mg (2 mL). The onset and duration of sensory and motor blocks, haemodynamic changes {variations in pulse, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation (SpO2)}, duration of rescue analgesia, side-effects, and complications were evaluated. …”
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Anxiolytic-Like Actions of Fatty Acids Identified in Human Amniotic Fluid by Rosa Isela García-Ríos, Juan Francisco Rodríguez-Landa, Carlos M. Contreras

“…Although a trend toward a dose-response effect was observed, only an amount of fatty acids that was similar to amniotic fluid fully mimicked the effect of diazepam (2 mg/kg, i.p.) in the defensive burying test, an action devoid of effects on locomotor activity and motor coordination. …”
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Deciphering In Vitro and In Vivo Pharmacological Properties of Seed and Fruit Extracts of Flacourtia jangomas (Lour.) Raeusch by Farhana Alam Ripa, Fowzia Alam, Fahmida Haque Riya, Yesmin Begum, Sharmin Akter Eti, Nusratun Nahar, Zebunnesa Ahmed, Sabrina Sharmin

“…In both in vivo analgesic tests, SFJC demonstrated substantial (p<0.01) pain inhibition percentages (tail immersion: 49.46%; acetic acid writhing: 66.43%) at a dose of 600 mg/kg. During neuropharmacological screening, all extracts significantly (p<0.01; p<0.05) and dose-dependently decreased the mice’s locomotion activity and motor balance. …”
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Semi-in-situ cutting force measurement of a jigsaw by Sándor Apáti, György Hegedűs, Sándor Hajdu

“…The method uses Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) analysis to determine the motor speeds, which helps calculate dynamic cutting parameters correctly. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Pramipexole Sustained Release versus Immediate Release Formulation for Nocturnal Symptoms in Chinese Patients with Advanced Parkinson’s Disease: A Pilot Stud... by Haiyan Zhou, Shuhua Li, Hongmei Yu, Shenggang Sun, Xinhua Wan, Xiaodong Zhu, Chun-Feng Liu, Ling Chen, Wei Xiang, Yaqing Sun, Haibo Chen, Shengdi Chen

“…Other endpoints included motor complications (MDS-UPDRS part IV) score. Adverse events were evaluated for each group. …”
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Experimental Study of Modified Videman Method to Replicate Knee Osteoarthritis in Rabbits by Jing LIU, Qiaoxuan LIN, Liming LU, Zexing GUO, Hong LIU, Liangzhi ZHANG, Zhongbiao XIU

“…During the process of modeling, the general conditions of the falling off of the plaster, blood supply to the left hind limb and death were recorded. Lequesne MG knee grade score method was used to evaluate the left knee joint motor function of rabbits after modeling. …”
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Alpha-synuclein pathology enhances peripheral and CNS immune responses to bacterial endotoxins by Anna-Sophia Hartke, Cara S. Schreiber, Kristina Lau, Ivo Wiesweg, Inken Waltl, Ulrich Kalinke, Franziska Richter, Christopher Käufer

“…At this early time point, motor behavior is not yet robustly impacted by the observed pathological alterations. …”
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Risk assessment of complex organoarsenic species in food by EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM), Helle Katrine Knutsen, Agneta Åkesson, Vasileios Bampidis, Margherita Bignami, Laurent Bodin, James Kevin Chipman, Gisela Degen, Antonio Hernández‐Jerez, Tim Hofer, Christer Hogstrand, Stefano Landi, Jean‐Charles Leblanc, Kyriaki Machera, Evangelia Ntzani, Guido Rychen, Salomon Sand, Katharina Vejdovszky, Barbara Viviani, Lars Barregård, Diane Benford, Eugenia Dogliotti, Kevin Francesconi, Jose Ángel Gómez Ruiz, Hans Steinkellner, Tanja Schwerdtle

“…For glycerol arsenosugar (AsSugOH) a RP of 0.85 mg As/kg bw per day was derived based on the BMDL10 values for cognitive and motor function in mice. …”
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Psychometric Properties of the Apathy Scale in Advanced Parkinson’s Disease by John B. Wetmore, José Matías Arbelo, María José Catalán, Francesc Valldeoriola, Carmen Rodriguez-Blazquez, Pablo Martinez-Martin

“…AS total score was moderately correlated with Beck Depression Inventory (0.34) and with Non-Motor Symptoms Scale domains 2 (sleep/fatigue, 0.35), 3 (mood/apathy, 0.56), and 5 (attention/memory, 0.41). …”
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Comparison of PM2.5 Chemical Compositions during Haze and Non-haze Days in a Heavy Industrial City in North China by Menghui Li, Liping Wu, Xiangyan Zhang, Xinwu Wang, Wenyu Bai, Jing Ming, Chunmei Geng, Wen Yang

“…Additionally, an elevated TE concentration was observed during the episode (exceeding the pre- and post-haze values by 54.70% and 31.98%, respectively), with crustal elements (K, Al, Ca, Si, Na, Fe and Mg), the most abundant elemental components, accounting for 88.64%. …”
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Effect of Aquatic Treadmill Training on Patients with Hemiplegia after Stroke by WANG Yanan, ZHANG Tong, LIU Huilin, DU Xuejing, ZHU Xiaomin, LIU Yuanmin

“…Both groups received conventional rehabilitation treatment (basic movement training, motor function facilitation, dynamic standing balance training, walking training, etc.), 30 minutes a time, once a day, five days a week, lasting for four weeks. …”
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Cordycepin Decreases Compound Action Potential Conduction of Frog Sciatic Nerve In Vitro Involving Ca2+-Dependent Mechanisms by Li-Hua Yao, Hui-Min Yu, Qiu-Ping Xiong, Wei Sun, Yan-Liang Xu, Wei Meng, Yu-Ping Li, Xin-Ping Liu, Chun-Hua Yuan

“…Compound nerve action potential (CNAP), which is critical in signal conduction in the peripheral nervous system, is necessary to regulate physical performance, including motor system physiological and pathological processes. …”
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Recurrent Falls in People with Parkinson’s Disease without Cognitive Impairment: Focusing on Modifiable Risk Factors by Lorena R. S. Almeida, Guilherme T. Valença, Nádja N. Negreiros, Elen B. Pinto, Jamary Oliveira-Filho

“…In multivariate analysis, independent risk factors for recurrent falls were (P<0.05) levodopa equivalent dose (OR = 1.283 per 100 mg increase; 95% CI = 1.092–1.507), UPDRS-ADL > 16 points (OR = 10.0; 95% CI = 3.6–28.3), FES-I > 30 points (OR = 6.0; 95% CI = 1.6–22.6), and Berg ≤ 48 points (OR = 3.9; 95% CI = 1.2–12.7).We encourage the utilization of these modifiable risk factors in the screening of fall risk.…”
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