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Differences in Writing and Drawing may Help Differentiate Parkinson’s Disease f...

Introduction: The ability to draw figures requires preserving visuospatial functions and motor pathways. The floating door sign (FDS) reflects the inability to join the vertical lines of a door with the floor when a patient is asked to draw a house. This signal was described as a positive predictive factor for Parkinson’s Disease (PD), but not essential tremor (ET). Nevertheless, conflicting literature has emer...

Glioblastoma as an Advanced Parkinson’s Disease Mimicker

iHandU: A Novel Quantitative Wrist Rigidity Evaluation Device for Deep Brain St...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery is the gold standard therapeutic intervention in Parkinson's disease (PD) with motor complications, notwithstanding drug therapy. In the intraoperative evaluation of DBS's efficacy, neurologists impose a passive wrist flexion movement and qualitatively describe the perceived decrease in rigidity under different stimulation parameters and electrode positions. To tackle this s...

Distonias laríngea e oro-mandibular: revisão e tratamento

As distonias são um grupo pouco divulgado de doenças do movimento de etiologia desconhecida e que se atribuem a disfunção dos gânglios da base. caracterizam-se pela ocorrência de contracções musculares involuntárias e sustentadas que provocam movimentos repetitivos, torção e posturas anormais, atingindo os mais diversos grupos musculares. o tratamento dos movimentos distónicos é essencialmente médico, mas em de...

Headache secondary to infections, tumors or toxins

This article discusses the headaches associated with infectious, neoplastic and toxic. Although most often manifest acutely, the evolution is not rare sub-acute. Especially in this second hypothesis can easily go unnoticed. Knowledge of the characteristics described here will allow many of these situations are identified in time.; Neste artigo são abordadas as cefaleias associadas a causas infecciosas, neoplási...