Management of Advanced Therapies in Parkinson’s Disease Patients in times of Humanitarian crisis: the COVID-19 experience. Fasano A, Antonini A, Katzenschlager R, Krack P, Odin P, Evans AH, Foltynie T, Volkmann J, Merello M. Mov Disord Clin Pract. 2020 May …
The reliability of Deep Brain Stimulation YouTube videos. Tripathi S, ReFaey K, Stein R, Calhoun BJ, Despart AN, Brantley MC, Grewal SS, Quinones-Hinojosa A, Wharen RE. J Clin Neurosci. 2020 Apr;74:202-204. SUMMARY: Patients are increasingly turning to the internet for …
Inhaled levodopa in Parkinson’s disease patients with OFF periods: A randomized 12-month pulmonary safety study. Grosset DG, Dhall R, Gurevich T, Kassubek J, Poewe WH, Rascol O, Rudzinska M, Cormier J, Sedkov A, Oh C. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2020 Feb;71:4-10. …
Could implanted medical devices be hacked? Jo Best. BMJ 2020;368:m102 SUMMARY: Jo Best is a freelance writer writing for the BMJ: She quotes Bill Aerts, executive director of the University of Michigan’s Archimedes Center for Medical Device Security saying:“Many implantable …
Impact of blinding on estimated treatment effects in randomised clinical trials: meta-epidemiological study. Moustgaard H, Clayton GL, Jones HE, Boutron I, Jørgensen L, Laursen DRT, Olsen MF, Paludan-Müller A, Ravaud P, Savović J, Sterne JAC, Higgins JPT, Hróbjartsson A. BMJ. …
Antibiotic exposure and risk of Parkinson’s disease in Finland: A nationwide case-control study. Mertsalmi TH, Pekkonen E, Scheperjans F. Mov Disord. 2020 Mar;35(3):431-442. SUMMARY: The authors evaluated the impact of antibiotic exposure on the risk of PD in a nationwide, …
Pierre D. and the first photographs of Parkinson’s disease. Lewis PA, Plun-Favreau H, Rowley M, Spillane J. Mov Disord. 2020 Mar;35(3):389-391. SUMMARY: When the famous Queen Square neurologist William Gowers wrote his Manual of the Diseases of the Nervous System …
Cerebral Impaludation – An Ignoble Procedure between Two Nobel Prizes: Frontal Lobe Lesions before the Introduction of Leucotomy. Blomstedt P. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 2020;98:150–159 SUMMARY: It has been claimed many times that Moniz inspiration to perform leucotomy was by a …
Editor’s Note: Deep Brain Stimulation and Functional Neurosurgery for Movement Disorders: Is the Current Cycle Waning? Jose A. Obeso. Movement Disorders, Vol. 34, No. 12, 2019 SUMMARY: This is a moving affectionate farewell Editorial of the Editor of Mov. Disord. …
Parkinson’s disease – the story of an eponym. Goedert M, Compston A. Nat Rev Neurol. 2018 Jan;14(1):57-62 SUMMARY: Everybody knows or assumes that the disease called by James Parkinson “paralysis agitans” was renamed by Charcot “La maladie de Parkinson” i.e., …