Valldeoriola F, Muñoz E, Rumià J, Roldán P, Cámara A, Compta Y, Martí MJ, Tolosa E. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2018, Sep5 Six patients received Low frequency (LF) (60 Hz) in SNr or HF-STN stimulation alone or combined (COMB) stimulation of …
Varriale P, Collomb-Clerc A, Van Hamme A, Perrochon A, Kemoun G, Sorrentino G, George N, Lau B, Karachi C, Welter ML. Clin Neurophysiol. 2018 Nov;129(11):2482-2491. Freezing of gait (FOG) represents a major burden for Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients. High frequency …
Mirzadeh Z, Chen T, Chapple KM, Lambert M, Karis JP, Dhall R, Ponce FA. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2018 Oct 18. Clinical outcome studies have recently shown that “asleep” DBS lead placement, performed using intraoperative imaging with stereotactic accuracy as the …
Rossi M, Bruno V, Arena J, Cammarota Á, Merello M. Mov Disord Clin Pract. 2018 Feb 28;5(3):246-254. In DBS of STN or GPi for PD, certain procedure-related problems and unrealistic patient expectations may detract specialists from indicating DBS more widely …
Harmsen IE, Lee DJ, Dallapiazza RF, De Vloo P, Chen R, Fasano A, Kalia SK, Hodaie M, Lozano AM. Mov Disord. 2018 Nov 13. In 5 patients PD with STN DBS and in 1 patient with ET with VIM DBS, …
Dallapiazza RF, Lee DJ, De Vloo P, Fomenko A, Hamani C, Hodaie M, Kalia SK, Fasano A, Lozano AM. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2018 Oct 18. Surgical procedures that are used to treat essential tremor (ET) include DBS and thalamotomy …
Huotarinen A, Kivisaari R, Hariz M. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2018 Oct 2:1-5. Laitinen, the father of the resurrection of surgery for PD (pallidotomy) and a pioneer of functional neurosurgery was known to have performed cingulotomy in psychiatric patients. In his …
Mitchell KT, Larson P, Starr PA, Okun MS, Wharen RE Jr, Uitti RJ, Guthrie BL, Peichel D, Pahwa R, Walker HC, Foote K, Marshall FJ, Jankovic J, Simpson R, Phibbs F, Neimat JS, Stewart RM, Dashtipour K, Ostrem JL. Parkinsonism …
Mahlknecht P, Georgiev D, Akram H, Brugger F, Vinke S, Zrinzo L, Hariz M, Bhatia KP, Hariz GM, Willeit P, Rothwell JC, Foltynie T, Limousin P. Brain. 2018 Oct 1;141(10):3023-3034. It has been suggested that GPi DBS in dystonia may …
GBD 2016 Parkinson’s Disease Collaborators. Lancet Neurol 2018; 17: 939–53 Neurological disorders are now the leading source of disability globally, and ageing is increasing the burden of neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson’s disease. The global burden of Parkinson’s disease was evaluated …