Influence of dopaminergic medication on automatic postural responses and balance impairment in Parkinson's disease

1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 509-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bastiaan R. Bloem ◽  
Dennis J. Beckley ◽  
J. Gert van Dijk ◽  
Aeilko H. Zwinderman ◽  
Michael P. Remler ◽  
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2002 ◽  
Vol 249 (7) ◽  
pp. 824-828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman Putzki ◽  
Matthias Maschke ◽  
Johannes Drepper ◽  
Hans-Chr. Diener ◽  
Dagmar Timmann

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (15) ◽  
pp. 3320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoya Hasegawa ◽  
Vrutangkumar V. Shah ◽  
Patricia Carlson-Kuhta ◽  
John G. Nutt ◽  
Fay B. Horak ◽  
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This study aimed to determine the most sensitive objective measures of balance dysfunction that differ between people with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and healthy controls. One-hundred and forty-four people with PD and 79 age-matched healthy controls wore eight inertial sensors while performing tasks to measure five domains of balance: standing posture (Sway), anticipatory postural adjustments (APAs), automatic postural responses (APRs), dynamic posture (Gait) and limits of stability (LOS). To reduce the initial 93 measures, we selected uncorrelated measures that were most sensitive to PD. After applying a threshold on the Standardized Mean Difference between PD and healthy controls, 44 measures remained; and after reducing highly correlated measures, 24 measures remained. The four most sensitive measures were from APAs and Gait domains. The random forest with 10-fold cross-validation on the remaining measures (n = 24) showed an accuracy to separate PD from healthy controls of 82.4%—identical to result for all measures. Measures from the most sensitive domains, APAs and Gait, were significantly correlated with the severity of disease and with patient-related outcomes. This method greatly reduced the objective measures of balance to the most sensitive for PD, while still capturing four of the five domains of balance.


Author(s):  
J. Koschel ◽  
K. Ray Chaudhuri ◽  
L. Tönges ◽  
M. Thiel ◽  
V. Raeder ◽  
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2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Mark Tomishima ◽  
Agnete Kirkeby

After many years of preclinical development, cell and gene therapies have advanced from research tools in the lab to clinical-grade products for patients, and today they constitute more than a quarter of all new Phase I clinical trials for Parkinson’s disease. Whereas efficacy has been convincingly proven for many of these products in preclinical models, the field is now entering a new phase where the functionality and safety of these products will need to stand the test in clinical trials. If successful, these new products can have the potential to provide patients with a one-time administered treatment which may alleviate them from daily symptomatic dopaminergic medication.


Author(s):  
Alessandro Zampogna ◽  
Ilaria Mileti ◽  
Francesca Martelli ◽  
Marco Paoloni ◽  
Zaccaria Del Prete ◽  
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Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. e0135287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wiebke Grashorn ◽  
Odette Schunke ◽  
Carsten Buhmann ◽  
Katarina Forkmann ◽  
Sabrina Diedrich ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tareq Sawan ◽  
Mary Louise Harris ◽  
Christopher Kobylecki ◽  
Laura Baijens ◽  
Michel van Hooren ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhinav Sharma ◽  
Diego Vidaurre ◽  
Jan Vesper ◽  
Alfons Schnitzler ◽  
Esther Florin

AbstractPathological oscillations including elevated beta activity in the subthalamic nucleus (STN) and between STN and cortical areas are a hallmark of neural activity in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Oscillations also play an important role in normal physiological processes and serve distinct functional roles at different points in time. We characterised the effect of dopaminergic medication on oscillatory whole-brain networks in PD in a time-resolved manner by employing a hidden Markov model on combined STN local field potentials and magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings from 17 PD patients. Dopaminergic medication led to communication within the medial and orbitofrontal cortex in the delta/theta frequency range. This is in line with deteriorated frontal executive functioning as a side effect of dopamine treatment in Parkinson’s disease. In addition, dopamine caused the beta band activity to switch from an STN-mediated motor network to a frontoparietal-mediated one. In contrast, dopamine did not modify locally-originating STN oscillations in PD. STN–STN synchrony emerged both on and off medication. By providing electrophysiological evidence for the differential effects of dopaminergic medication on the discovered networks, our findings open further avenues for electrical and pharmacological interventions in PD.


BJPsych Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (S1) ◽  
pp. S279-S280
Author(s):  
Emma Padfield ◽  
Hannah Potticary ◽  
Tim Segal

AimsThe first objective was to estimate prevalence of sense of presence (SoP) experiences in patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD), including whether onset was prior to or after commencing dopaminergic medication. The second objective was to explore the relationship between frequency of SoP experiences and dopaminergic drug, drug dosage and length of drug exposure. The experimental hypothesis was that SoP symptoms in PD would present more frequently in patients treated longer and with higher dopaminergic drug doses.BackgroundPD is a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder. Psychiatric symptoms are common and associated with impaired quality of life and higher treatment costs. PD psychosis often starts with ‘minor hallucinations’, the most common being a false ‘sense of presence’ (SoP), the vivid sensation that someone else is nearby when nobody is there. SoP symptoms typically do not cause significant distress but may act as a prognostic marker for future severe psychosis and may prompt alteration of treatment or reduction in dopaminergic drug dosage. This study aimed to extend prior research by characterizing SoP further and investigating the link with dopaminergic medication.MethodThis was a retrospective, cross-sectional study. Twenty-one patients diagnosed with PD completed a questionnaire to identify presence of SoP symptoms, duration of symptoms, timing of onset related to dopaminergic treatment and the frequency of symptoms in relation to current levodopa equivalent dose (LED). Descriptive frequencies were compared using a two-tailed t-test. Multiple regression analysis was conducted to assess the relationship between frequency of SP experiences, levodopa equivalent dose and length of drug exposure.ResultSixteen of twenty-one patients reported experiencing SoP symptoms. Patients who had not experienced SoP symptoms had a significantly lower LED than those who had experienced these symptoms. There were no other significant differences between the groups. No statistical significance was shown on regression analysis; however our study was not adequately powered for the regression analysis as the number of participants was too low.ConclusionThis study confirms that SoP symptoms are common among patients with PD and supports a correlation between the total daily equivalent dose of levodopa and SoP symptoms. It does not provide evidence for a temporal relationship between onset of SoP symptoms and duration of dopaminergic treatment. The study was insufficiently powered and a larger study is required to investigate further.


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