Pisa Syndrome in Parkinson’s Disease: Electromyographic Aspects and Implications for Rehabilitation by Giuseppe Frazzitta, Pietro Balbi, Francesco Gotti, Roberto Maestri, Annarita Sabetta, Luca Caremani, Laura Gobbi, Marina Capobianco, Rossana Bera, Nir Giladi, Davide Ferrazzoli

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Detecting Freezing of Gait in Parkinson Disease Using Multiple Wearable Sensors Sets During Various Walking Tasks Relative to Medication Conditions (DetectFoG): Protocol for a Prospective Cohort Study by Sébastien Cordillet, Sophie Drapier, Frédérique Leh, Audeline Dumont, Florian Bidet, Isabelle Bonan, Karim Jamal

“… BackgroundFreezing of gait (FoG) is one of the most disabling symptoms of Parkinson disease (PD). Detecting and monitoring episodes of FoG are important in the medical follow-up of patients to assess disease progression and functional impact and to adjust treatment accordingly. …”
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Analysis on the Susceptibility Genes in Two Chinese Pedigrees with Familial Parkinson's Disease by Changshui Xu, Jun Xu, Yanmin Zhang, Jianjun Ma, Hideshi Kawakami, Hirofumi Maruyama, Masaki Kamada

“…To screen the susceptibility genes in Chinese pedigrees with early-onset familial Parkinson's disease (FPD). Methods. Fifty-one genomic DNA samples extracted from two Chinese pedigrees with FPD, the alpha-synuclein genes (SNCA), the leucine-rich repeat kinase 2(LRRK2), PINK1(PTEN-induced putative kinase 1), PARK7(Protein DJ1), PARK2(Parkinson juvenile disease protein 2), the glucocerebrosidase (GBA), and ATP(Ezrin-binding protein PACE-1), were sequenced by the use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique. …”
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Rapid Screening for Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease: A Pilot Study by YanHong Dong, Way Inn Koay, Leonard Leong Litt Yeo, Christopher Li-Hsian Chen, Jing Xu, Raymond Chee Seong Seet, Erle Chuen Hian Lim

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Dementia in Parkinson's Disease Correlates with α-Synuclein Pathology but Not with Cortical Astrogliosis by Simone A. van den Berge, Josta T. Kevenaar, Jacqueline A. Sluijs, Elly M. Hol

“…Dementia is a common feature in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and is considered to be the result of limbic and cortical Lewy bodies and/or Alzheimer changes. …”
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Validity and Reliability of the Persian Version of Parkinson’s Disease Sleep Scale-2 by Mohammad Taghi Joghataei, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Maryam Mehdizadeh, Sepideh Goudarzi, Sayed Amir Hasan Habibi, Mahsa Meimandi, Arian Dehmiyani, Ghorban Taghizadeh

“…Parkinson’s Disease Sleep Scale (PDSS-2) is one of the most reliable tools for measuring sleep difficulties in people with Parkinson’s disease. …”
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Aberrant functional connectome gradient and its neurotransmitter basis in Parkinson's disease by Tao Guo, Cheng Zhou, Jiaqi Wen, Jingjing Wu, Yaping Yan, Jianmei Qin, Min Xuan, Haoting Wu, Chenqing Wu, Jingwen Chen, Sijia Tan, Xiaojie Duanmu, Baorong Zhang, Xiaojun Xu, Minming Zhang, Xiaojun Guan

“…Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) exhibit heterogenous clinical deficits not only in motor function, other deficits in both sensory and higher-order cognitive processing are also involved. …”
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Machine learning and AI for advancing Parkinson's disease diagnosis: exploring promising applications by Shohreh Abdollahi, Ramin Safa

“…This study investigates the efficacy of three widely employed algorithms – Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machine, and Artificial Neural Network – in detecting Parkinson's disease using speech-related features. …”
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Exploring the Potential Imaging Biomarkers for Parkinson’s Disease Using Machine Learning Approach by Illia Mushta, Sulev Koks, Anton Popov, Oleksandr Lysenko

“…Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor and neuropsychiatric symptoms resulting from the loss of dopamine-producing neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc). …”
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Validation of a Spanish Version of the Lille Apathy Rating Scale for Parkinson’s Disease by Rocio García-Ramos, Clara Villanueva Iza, María José Catalán, Abilio Reig-Ferrer, Jorge Matías-Guíu

“…To date, no rating scales for detecting apathy in Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients have been validated in Spanish. …”
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Neuroplasticity and Neuroprotective Effect of Treadmill Training in the Chronic Mouse Model of Parkinson’s Disease by Ewelina Palasz, Wiktor Niewiadomski, Anna Gasiorowska, Anna Mietelska-Porowska, Grazyna Niewiadomska

“…Physical training confers protection to dopaminergic neurons in rodent models of parkinsonism produced by neurotoxins. The sparing effect of physical training on dopaminergic neurons can be tested with training applied during chronic MPTP treatment, while the neurorestorative effect when training is applied after completing such treatment. …”
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Cortical Visual Performance Test Setup for Parkinson’s Disease Based on Motion Blur Orientation by M. Erdem Isenkul

“…Studies on Parkinson’s disease (PD) are becoming very popular on multidisciplinary platforms. …”
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Serum levels of the Parkinson's disease-linked protein Parkin are specifically elevated in COVID-19 by Nadezhda G. Gumanova, Natalya L. Bogdanova, Alexander Yu. Gorshkov

“…Results: High serum levels of the Parkinson's disease-linked protein Parkin were associated with SARS-positive status (P < 0.05) but were not associated with IgG-AdV-positive-status (P > 0.05). …”
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Comparing Balance Performance on Force Platform Measures in Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease and Healthy Adults by Cathy C. Harro, Amanda Kelch, Cora Hargis, Abigail DeWitt

“…The motor control test (MCT) detected changes in reactive postural control mainly in later disease stages. …”
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Colonic Oxidative and Mitochondrial Function in Parkinson’s Disease and Idiopathic REM Sleep Behavior Disorder by C. Morén, Í. González-Casacuberta, J. Navarro-Otano, D. Juárez-Flores, D. Vilas, G. Garrabou, J. C. Milisenda, C. Pont-Sunyer, M. Catalán-García, M. Guitart-Mampel, E. Tobías, F. Cardellach, F. Valldeoriola, A. Iranzo, E. Tolosa

“…To determine potential mitochondrial and oxidative alterations in colon biopsies from idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) subjects. Methods. Colonic biopsies from 7 iRBD subjects, 9 subjects with clinically diagnosed PD, and 9 healthy controls were homogenized in 5% w/v mannitol. …”
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Deep brain stimulation-entrained gamma oscillations in chronic home recordings in Parkinson's disease by Maria Olaru, Amelia Hahn, Maria Shcherbakova, Simon Little, Wolf-Julian Neumann, Reza Abbasi-Asl, Philip A. Starr

“…Background: In Parkinson's disease, invasive brain recordings show that dopaminergic medication can induce narrowband gamma rhythms in the motor cortex and subthalamic nucleus, which co-fluctuate with dyskinesia scores. …”
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Deep Learning–Based Prediction of Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease With the Ensemble Channel Selection Approach by Sara Abbasi, Khosro Rezaee

“…ABSTRACT Purpose A debilitating and poorly understood symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD) is freezing of gait (FoG), which increases the risk of falling. …”
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Combining Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Grad-CAM for Parkinson’s Disease Prediction and Visual Explanation by Reyhaneh Dehghan, Marjan Naderan, Seyed Enayatallah Alavi

“…Early detection of Parkinson's disease is an important factor in slowing the progression of the disease. …”
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Efficacy of Moxibustion in the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease Based on Meta-Analysis under Intelligent Medical Treatment by Qianqian Niu, Weijie Xu

“…Dementia in Parkinson’s disease (PD) has become a major factor affecting the quality of life of patients with Parkinson’s disease. …”
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Screening for Problematic Internet Use May Help Identify Impulse Control Disorders in Parkinson’s Disease by Márton Kovács, Attila Makkos, Dávid Pintér, Annamária Juhász, Gergely Darnai, Kázmér Karádi, József Janszky, Norbert Kovács

“…Impulse control disorders in Parkinson’s disease (PD) represent emerging problems with potentially devastating consequences. …”
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