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"Many people have a false sense of security about these herbal products because they are seen as 'natural,'" said Arshad Jahangir, M.D.,...
Non-invasive autonomic nervous system (ANS) assessment is often based on physiological challenges, such as the Valsalva maneuver and head-up postural...
The incidence of CD is reported to be 1/250,000 people,3 but the numbers are often thought to be higher due to delays in referral and an inability to...
However, at this time, many questions are still unanswered and many options are still debated. What is the appropriate structure to stimulate or to...
Dystonia is a symptom that involves involuntary muscle contractions that are frequently sustained, but can be phasic. These contractions or spasms...
Disorders of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) can be of central or peripheral origin, and may be primary illnesses (e.g. primary autonomic...
Disorders of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) can be of central or peripheral origin, and may be primary illnesses (e.g. primary autonomic failure,...
The continuous dopaminergic stimulation (CDS) concept dominates the current therapeutic management of Parkinson’s disease (PD), especially in...
In the September issue of Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, the researchers' report that a variant in LINGO1, a gene involved in...
In the September issue of Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, the researchers' report that a variant in LINGO1, a gene involved in neuronal survival,...
Researchers say these findings, presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, represent concrete progress toward a ...
Current pharmacological therapy for chronic pain and Parkinson’s disease (PD) is insufficient for all patients or disease stages. Chronic pain...
Dystonia is a neurological syndrome characterised by involuntary, sustained, patterned and repetitive contractions of opposing muscles, leading to...
Thus far, the patients the people for whom these matters hold most importance have not been involved. This means that a number of decisions have...
Clinical Features of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a neurological disorder...
The GPDS questioned more than 1,900 physicians, PD patients and care-givers about how the disease affected them. It found that around half of PD...
Upper Motor Neuron Disorders in Africa Konzo was first described in 1938 in the Bandundu province of the DRC.2 It is characterised by a sudden onset...
The same basic regulations from the US Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) apply to all clinical investigations of medical devices. These include 21...
