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- Akram, Harith, et al.
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L-Dopa Responsiveness Is Associated With Distinctive Connectivity Patterns in Advanced Parkinson's Disease
- 2017
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In: Movement Disorders. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 0885-3185 .- 1531-8257. ; 32:6, s. 874-883
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Background: Neuronal loss and dopamine depletion alter motor signal processing between cortical motor areas, basal ganglia, and the thalamus, resulting in the motor manifestations of Parkinson's disease. Dopamine replacement therapy can reverse these manifestations with varying degrees of improvement. Methods: To evaluate functional connectivity in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease and changes in functional connectivity in relation to the degree of response to L-dopa, 19 patients with advanced Parkinson's disease underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging in the on-medication state. Scans were obtained on a 3-Tesla scanner in 3x3x2.5mm(3) voxels. Seed-based bivariate regression analyses were carried out with atlas-defined basal ganglia regions as seeds, to explore relationships between functional connectivity and improvement in the motor section of the UPDRS-III following an L-dopa challenge. False discovery rate-corrected P was set at < 0.05 for a 2-tailed t test. Results: A greater improvement in UPDRS-III scores following L-dopa administration was characterized by higher resting-state functional connectivity between the prefrontal cortex and the striatum (P=0.001) and lower resting-state functional connectivity between the pallidum (P=0.001), subthalamic nucleus (P=0.003), and the paracentral lobule (supplementary motor area, mesial primary motor, and primary sensory areas). Conclusions: Our findings show characteristic basal ganglia resting-state functional connectivity patterns associated with different degrees of L-dopa responsiveness in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease. L-Dopa exerts a graduated influence on remapping connectivity in distinct motor control networks, potentially explaining some of the variance in treatment response.
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- Blomstedt, Patric, et al.
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A family with a hereditary form of torsion dystonia from northern Sweden treated with bilateral pallidal deep brain stimulation
- 2009
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In: Movement Disorders. - : Wiley. - 0885-3185 .- 1531-8257. ; 24:16, s. 2415-2419
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- To evaluate pallidal DBS in a non-DYT1 form of hereditary dystonia. We present the results of pallidal DBS in a family with non-DYT1 dystonia where DYT5 to 17 was excluded. The dystonia is following an autosomal dominant pattern. Ten members had definite dystonia and five had dystonia with minor symptoms. Four patients received bilateral pallidal DBS. Mean age was 47 years. The patients were evaluated before surgery, and "on" stimulation after a mean of 2.5 years (range 1-3) using the Burke-Fahn-Marsden scale (BFM). Mean BFM score decreased by 79 % on stimulation, from 42.5 +/- 24 to 9 +/- 6.5 at the last evaluation. Cervical involvement improved by 89%. The 2 patients with oromandibular dystonia and blepharospasm demonstrated a reduction of 95% regarding these symptoms. The present study confirms the effectiveness of pallidal DBS in a new family with hereditary primary segmental and generalized dystonia.
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- Blomstedt, Patric, et al.
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Deep brain stimulation in the posterior subthalamic area in the treatment of essential tremor
- 2010
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In: Movement Disorders. - : Wiley. - 0885-3185 .- 1531-8257. ; 25:10, s. 1350-1356
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- To evaluate the posterior subthalamic area (PSA) as a target for deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the treatment of essential tremor (ET). The ventral intermediate nucleus of the thalamus is the traditional target for DBS in the treatment of ET. Recent studies have presented beneficial effects of DBS in the PSA in the treatment of tremor. Twenty-one patients with ET were included in this study. All patients were evaluated before and 1 year after surgery, on and off stimulation, using the essential tremor rating scale (ETRS). A marked microlesional effect was noticed in 83%, in some cases obviating the need for electrical stimulation for many months. The total ETRS was reduced from 46.2 at baseline to 18.7 (60%). Item 5/6 (tremor of the upper extremity) was improved from 6.2 to 0.3 (95%), and items 11 to 14 (hand function) from 9.7 to 1.3 (87%) concerning the contralateral hand. Activities of daily living were improved by 66%. No severe complication occurred. Eight patients presented a postoperative mild dysphasia that regressed within days to weeks. DBS in the PSA resulted in a marked reduction of tremor.
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- Capelle, Hans-Holger, et al.
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Bilateral deep brain stimulation for cervical dystonia in patients with previous peripheral surgery
- 2012
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In: Movement Disorders. - : Wiley. - 0885-3185 .- 1531-8257. ; 27:2, s. 301-304
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Background: There are no data available concerning whether patients with cervical dystonia who have recurrent or new symptoms after peripheral denervation surgery benefit similarly from pallidal deep brain stimulation compared with patients who receive primarily pallidal stimulation. Methods: Data on 7 cervical dystonia patients with recurrent or progressive dystonia after peripheral denervation who underwent pallidal stimulation were prospectively collected. Deep brain stimulation was performed in Mannheim/ Hannover, Germany, or in Umea, Sweden. To the subgroup from Mannheim/Hannover, a second group of patients without previous peripheral surgery was matched. Assessments included the Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale and the Burke-FahnMarsden dystonia rating scale, as well as the Tsui scale in the Swedish patients. Results: The 4 patients from Mannheim/Hannover experienced sustained improvement from pallidal stimulation by a mean of 57.5% according to the Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale (P <.05) and by a mean of 69.5% according to the Burke-FahnMarsden dystonia rating scale (P <.05) at long-term follow-up of 40.5 months. The patients from Umea had a mean Tsui score of 7 prior to surgery and a mean score of 3 at the mean follow-up of 8 months (62.5%). In the matched group the Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale improved by 58.8% and the Burke-Fahn-Marsden dystonia rating scale by 67% (P <.05) at long-term follow-up (mean, 41.5 months). Conclusions: Patients who had prior peripheral surgery for cervical dystonia experience improvement from subsequent pallidal stimulation that is comparable to that of de novo patients. (C) 2011 Movement Disorder Society
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- Cif, Laura, et al.
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Seventy Years of Pallidotomy for Movement Disorders
- 2017
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In: Movement Disorders. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0885-3185 .- 1531-8257. ; 32:7, s. 972-982
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The year 2017 marks the 70th anniversary of the birth of human stereotactic neurosurgery. The first procedure was a pallidotomy for Huntington's disease. However, it was for Parkinson's disease that pallidotomy was soon adopted worldwide. Pallidotomy was abandoned in the late 1950s in favor of thalamotomy because of the latter's more striking effect on tremor. The advent of levodopa put a halt to all surgery for PD. In the mid-1980s, Laitinen reintroduced the posteroventral pallidotomy of Leksell, and this procedure spread worldwide thanks to its efficacy on most parkinsonian symptoms including levodopa-induced dyskinesias and thanks to basic scientific work confirming the role of the globus pallidus internus in the pathophysiology of PD. With the advent of deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus, pallidotomy was again abandoned, and even DBS of the GPi has been overshadowed by STN DBS. The GPi reemerged in the late 1990s as a major stereotactic target for DBS in dystonia and, recently, in Tourette syndrome. Lately, lesioning of the GPI is being proposed to treat refractory status dystonicus or to treat DBS withdrawal syndrome in PD patients. Hence, the pallidum as a stereotactic target for either lesioning or DBS has been the phoenix of functional stereotactic neurosurgery, constantly abandoned and then rising again from its ashes. This review is a tribute to the pallidum on its 70th anniversary as a surgical target for movement disorders, analyzing its ebbs and flows and highlighting its merits, its versatility, and its resilience.
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- Dayal, Viswas, et al.
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Short Versus Conventional Pulse-Width Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson's Disease : A Randomized Crossover Comparison
- 2020
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In: Movement Disorders. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0885-3185 .- 1531-8257. ; 35:1, s. 101-108
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Background: Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) is an effective therapy for selected Parkinson's disease patients with motor fluctuations, but can adversely affect speech and axial symptoms. The use of short pulse width (PW) has been shown to expand the therapeutic window acutely, but its utility in reducing side effects in chronic STN-DBS patients has not been evaluated. Objective To compare the effect of short PW settings using 30-mu s with conventional 60-mu s settings on stimulation-induced dysarthria in Parkinson's disease patients with previously implanted STN-DBS systems.Methods: In this single-center, double-blind, randomized crossover trial, we assigned 16 Parkinson's disease patients who had been on STN-DBS for a mean of 6.5 years and exhibited moderate dysarthria to 30-mu s or 60-mu s settings for 4 weeks followed by the alternative PW setting for a further 4 weeks. The primary outcome was difference in dysarthric speech measured by the Sentence Intelligibility Test between study baseline and the 2 PW conditions. Secondary outcomes included motor, nonmotor, and quality of life measures.Results: There was no difference in the Sentence Intelligibility Test scores between baseline and the 2 treatment conditions (P = 0.25). There were also no differences noted in motor, nonmotor, or quality of life scores. The 30-mu s settings were well tolerated, and adverse event rates were similar to those at conventional PW settings. Post hoc analysis indicated that patients with dysarthria and a shorter duration of DBS may be improved by short PW stimulation.Conclusions: Short PW settings using 30 mu s did not alter dysarthric speech in chronic STN-DBS patients. A future study should evaluate whether patients with shorter duration of DBS may be helped by short PW settings.
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- Domellof, Magdalena Eriksson, et al.
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The relation between cognition and motor dysfunction in drug-naive newly diagnosed patients with parkinson's disease
- 2011
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In: Movement Disorders. - New York, N.Y. : Raven Press. - 0885-3185 .- 1531-8257. ; 26:12, s. 2183-2189
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Recent studies have reported cognitive decline to be common in the early phase of Parkinson's disease. Imaging data connect working memory and executive functioning to the dopamine system. It has also been suggested that bradykinesia is the clinical manifestation most closely related to the nigrostriatal lesion. Exploring the relationship between motor dysfunction and cognition can help us find shared or overlapping systems serving different functions. This relationship has been sparsely investigated in population-based studies of untreated Parkinson's disease. The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between motor signs and cognitive performance in the early stages of Parkinson's disease before the intake of dopaminergic medication. Patients were identified in a population-based study of incident cases with idiopathic parkinsonism. Patients with the postural instability and gait disturbances phenotype were compared with patients with the tremor-dominant phenotype on demographics and cognitive measures. Associations between cognitive and motor scores were investigated, with age, education, and sex controlled for. Bradykinesia was associated with working memory and mental flexibility, whereas axial signs were associated with episodic memory and visuospatial functioning. No significant differences in the neuropsychological variables were found between the postural instability and gait disturbances phenotype and the tremor phenotype. Our results indicate a shared system for slow movement and inflexible thinking that may be controlled by a dopaminergic network different from dopaminergic networks involved in tremor and/or rigidity. The association between axial signs and memory and visuospatial function may point to overlapping systems or pathologies related to these abilities.(C) 2011 Movement Disorder Society
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- Hariz, Gun-Marie, et al.
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Assessment of ability/disability in patients treated with chronic thalamic stimulation for tremor.
- 1998
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In: Movement Disorders. - : Wiley. - 0885-3185 .- 1531-8257. ; 13:1, s. 78-83
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Chronic thalamic stimulation (CTS) has a documented good effect on tremor in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and essential tremor (ET). This study evaluates whether the alleviation of impairment, i.e., tremor, translates into improvement of the patient's ability in performing instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). Thirteen patients were assessed with an occupational therapy tool called Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS). This observation-based scale rates the patient's motor and process skills needed to perform a given task. The evaluations were done at a mean of 13 months after surgery in the patient's home, and included assessments of IADL with the CTS activated and switched off, respectively. The results showed that most patients improved to variable degrees in their IADL ability when the thalamic stimulation was on. The improvement was more marked in patients operated on for tremor of their dominant hand. The improvement concerned mainly the skill items related to the patients' abilities of coordination, calibration, endurance, and accommodation during IADL task performance. The authors concluded that for some patients with tremor, CTS can improve independence in domestic activities of daily living.
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- Hariz, Gun-Marie, et al.
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Does the ADL part of the unified Parkinson's disease rating scale measure ADL? An evaluation in patients after pallidotomy and thalamic deep brain stimulation.
- 2003
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In: Movement Disorders. - : Wiley. - 0885-3185 .- 1531-8257. ; 18:4, s. 373-381
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We evaluated the impact of pallidotomy and thalamic deep brain stimulation (DBS) on disability of patients with advanced Parkinson's disease and investigated whether the activities of daily living (ADL) section of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) measures disability in everyday life. Nineteen patients who had pallidotomy and 14 patients who had thalamic DBS were followed for a mean of 11 months. Evaluation tools included the UPDRS as well as a generic ADL scale, called ADL taxonomy. The 13 items belonging to the ADL part of the UPDRS were classified into two categories according to whether the items described a disability or impairment. The total scores of the UPDRS Part II (ADL) were ameliorated in both the pallidotomy and the thalamic DBS groups. When analysing separately the scores from the two categories of the ADL part of the UPDRS, i.e., disability and impairment, only patients who underwent pallidotomy showed improvement in disability-related items. These findings were confirmed when evaluating the patients with the ADL taxonomy. The ADL part of the UPDRS contains a mixture of impairment- and disability-related items. This mixture may confound results when evaluating the impact of surgery on ADL.
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