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... all but the distal phalanx, asking the patient to relax the finger. With the other hand, the PARKINSON'S DISEASE AND MOVEMENT DISORDERS: D IAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT GUIDELINES FOR THE PRACTICING PHYSICIAN Chapter ... Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders: Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines for the Practicing Physician Edited by: C...

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... Valvular heart disease and the use of dopamine agonists for Parkinson’s disease. The New England Journal of Medicine, 356 (1), 39 46. 90 PARKINSON’S DISEASE AND PARKINSONISM 6 Managing the Non-Motor ... deficiency in the striatum of patients with Parkinson’s disease and the subsequent introduction of levodopa as a dramatically effective therapy of this hitherto devasta...

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... and Movement Disorders 1 Rationale for Surgical Therapy I Basal Ganglia and Movement Disorders 3 3 From: Current Clinical Neurology: Surgical Treatment of Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement ... inputs from the dorsal raphe nucleus (DR). The striatum projects directly, and indirectly via the GPe and STN, to the output nuclei of the basal ganglia, the...

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... contain the mutant disease- causing protein The principal disease- causing proteins, beta- amyloid and tau for Alzheimer’s (Fassbender et al., 2001; Mandelkow and Mandelkow, 1998), alpha-synuclein and ... define the disease hallmarks. A location of the aggregates in the temporal cortex was found typical for Alzheimer’s, a location in the substantia nigra typical for...

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... factor. Some of the movement disorders may respond to dopa treatment. Huntington’s disease The reported prevalence rates for this disease from the UK and USA have been 5–9 / 100 000. Although the disease ... Other skilled activities of the hand are spared. Typically, excessive force is used, and the pen is held in an abnormal posture. The movement is often acco...

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... degeneration, and nerve loss in the hippocampus and neocortex of a nature consistent with a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. In other patients, the major cortical pathology is the presence of ... the hand, or to rhythmically clench and unclench the fingers (Figure 12). Even if the amplitude of such movements is initially retained, it soon diminishes and may even cease....

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... markers, and the rebirth of surgical treatment for the disease. This chapter will examine relevant epidemiologic, clinical, and thera- peutic aspects of PD and will provide the neurologic basis for the ... during the past four decades. Thus, the 1960s were the years of dopamine discovery; the 1970s witnessed a leap forward in the treatment of the disease...

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... symptoms and were leading active lives. The impressions made by the therapists were formed from a short exposure to them on a video recording and therefore have the potential of being modified by further ... responsibility for damages arising out of the use or non-use of these guidelines and the literature used in support of these guidelines. 2.9 Funding The National C...

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