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., …
Safety assessment of spine MRI in deep brain stimulation patients. Boutet A, Elias GJB, Gramer R, Neudorfer C, Germann J, Naheed A, Bennett N, Li B, Gwun D, Chow CT, Maciel R, Valencia A, Fasano A, Munhoz RP, Foltz W, …
Direct visual targeting versus preset coordinates for ANT-DBS in epilepsy. Nome T, Herrman H, Lehtimäki K, Egge A, Konglund A, Ramm-Pettersen J, Taubøll E, Dietrichs E. Acta Neurol Scand. 2020 Feb 20. doi: 10.1111/ane.13233. [Epub ahead of print] SUMMARY: in …