ALLMedicine™ Movement Disorders Center

Dec 1st, 2021 - : The widespread use of the word "placebo" in the medical literature emphasizes the importance of this phenomenon in modern biomedical sciences. Neuroscientific research over the past thirty years shows that placebo effects are genuine psychobiolo...

Nov 30th, 2021 - S is a 12-year-old boy with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), seizure disorder, cerebral palsy, and intellectual disability who presented to the primary care clinician for a preventative care visit.S was born at full term after an unremarkable pregn...

Nov 27th, 2021 - Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is an increasingly common therapy for a large range of neurological disorders, such as abnormal movement disorders. The effectiveness of DBS in terms of controlling patient symptomatology has made this procedure increa...

Nov 27th, 2021 - Functional movement disorders (FMD) involve a broad range of abnormal involuntary movements not consistent with neurological diseases. These conditions often occur in combination with mood and anxiety disorders and are associated with poor clinica...

Nov 26th, 2021 - The dystonias are a heterogeneous group of hyperkinetic disorders characterized by sustained or intermittent muscle contractions that cause abnormal movements and/or postures. Although more than 200 causal genes are known, many cases of primary dy...

Dec 30th, 2020 - Most patients with movement disorders have speech impairments resulting from sensorimotor abnormalities that affect phonatory, articulatory, and prosodic speech subsystems. There is widespread cross-discipline use of speech recordings for diagnost...

May 7th, 2020 - Movement disorders and neurodegenerative diseases are a variety of conditions that involve progressive neuronal degeneration, injury, or death. Establishing the correct diagnosis of a movement disorder or neurodegenerative process can be difficult...

Jan 15th, 2008 - Dementia and movement disorders.|2008|Dormont D,Seidenwurm DJ, , ,|classification,complications,diagnosis,standards,classification,complications,diagnosis,

Nov 19th, 2021 - After being informed about the study and giving informed consent, participants will enroll in a pilot open trial of MindTrails, a web-based cognitive bias modification intervention. Participants will complete five, 20-minute MindTrails training se...

Nov 12th, 2021 - The efficacy of botulinum toxin (BTX) has now been demonstrated for a variety of diseases associated with involuntary muscles spasms or movement. The application of botulinum toxin therapy to movement disorders requires treatment tailored to the i...

Nov 10th, 2021 - Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) is a childhood onset neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by the presence of multiple motor and one or more phonic tics continuing for at least one year. In Israel, although consumption of cannabis is outlaw...

Oct 27th, 2021 - Freezing of gait is a late stage complication of Parkinson's disease in which patients note that their feet feel stuck or glued to the ground. This can lead to imbalance and falls and the secondary complications that can result from falls such as ...

Oct 26th, 2021 - Objective: The objective of this protocol is to provide DBS surgery and to collect physiology and efficacy data related to DBS therapy and motor and cognitive function in people with medically refractory Parkinson s disease (PD), dystonia, and ess...

Nov 12th, 2021 - A 1-mg daily dose of rasagiline has no disease-modifying effect for patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), new research confirms. Results from a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial support previous observations that free-water accu...

Nov 8th, 2021 - Key Takeaways Among adults with recently diagnosed Parkinson's disease, those with concomitant type 2 diabetes had at study entry more severe motor symptoms and a greater overall burden of nonmotor symptoms compared with patients without type 2 di...

Nov 1st, 2021 - Influenza infection is linked to a subsequent diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD) more than 10 years later, resurfacing a long-held debate about whether infection increases the risk for movement disorders over the long-term. In a large case-cont...

Oct 15th, 2021 - Patients with functional neurological disorders demonstrate higher levels of depression and alexithymia – in addition to signs of an avoidant attachment style – compared with those with other neurological disorders and healthy controls, investigat.

Oct 5th, 2021 - When treating oromandibular dystonia (OMD) with botulinum toxin injection to the lateral pterygoid muscle (LPM), an intraoral approach is the safest way to avoid injury to the maxillary artery, new research suggests. OMD causes an involuntary open...