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Longitudinal Cohort Study of Verbatim-Reported Postural Instability Symptoms as Outcomes for Online Parkinson's Disease Trials
June 6, 2022
… Background: The Parkinson's Disease Patient Report of Problems (PD-PROP) captures the problems and functional impact that patients report … outcome measures in randomized controlled trials. Methods: Problems reported by >25,000 PD patients in their own words …
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Ask the MD: Cognitive Impairment and Parkinson's Disease
September 14, 2016
… recalling information quickly. When memory or thinking problems are out of proportion to what is expected with … MCI doesn’t always worsen, but if memory or thinking problems progress to the point where they significantly …
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Related Conditions
… This brain disease causes slowness, stiffness and walking problems, but people with multiple system atrophy also have more problems with the body’s automatic functions (blood … disease causes movement, memory or thinking, and behavioral problems. Corticobasal degeneration (CBD) involves a …
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Spinal Cord Stimulation for Parkinson's
April 24, 2019
… Walking problems and freezing of gait (a temporary inability to … suggests that spinal cord stimulation may ease walking problems and lessen freezing. In this treatment, a surgeon … does not typically work well for freezing or all walking problems, and not everyone is a candidate for DBS. If …
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Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI)
… subjects with Parkinson’s risk factors of hyposmia or REM sleep behavior disorder 372 LRRK2 mutation carriers; 246 GBA … neurobehavioral, neuropsychological, autonomic, olfaction, sleep) Imaging: fMRI, DaTSCAN SPECT, DTI, AV-133 Biologic: …
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Higher Risk, Higher Reward? Self-Reported Effects of Real-World Cannabis Use in Parkinson's Disease
January 17, 2022
… were reported for pain, anxiety, agitation, and sleep (>50% of respondents, mean magnitude 1.28–1.51). Dry … administration, with mild subjective benefits primarily for sleep, pain, and mood. Higher THC products may be higher …