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Alessandra Nicoletti
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Exploring the knowledge, attitudes, and practices on sexual and gender minorities patients: a survey on Italian Neurologists
Sexual and gender minorities (SGM) encompass individuals identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ). SGM patients experience difficulties in accessing healthcare and may face discrim...
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Open AccessNeuroanatomical findings in isolated REM sleep behavior disorder and early Parkinson’s disease: a Voxel-based morphometry study
Isolated rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) is a parasomnia characterized by loss of physiological atonia of skeletal muscles with abnormal behaviors arising during REM sleep. RBD is often...
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Open AccessCan mobile health apps with smartphones and tablets be the new frontier of cognitive rehabilitation in older individuals? A narrative review of a growing field
A recent interesting field of application of telemedicine/e-health involved smartphone apps. Although research on mHealth began in 2014, there are still few studies using these technologies in healthy elderly ...
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Open AccessGender differences in non-motor fluctuations in Parkinson’s disease
Non-motor symptoms (NMS) and Non-motor fluctuations (NMF) in Parkinson’s Disease (PD) are common, involving several domains and affecting quality of life. Aim of the study is to estimate the burden of NMF in P...
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Influence of RBD onset on the clinical characteristics of Parkinson’s disease patients: a retrospective study
In Parkinson’s disease (PD), rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) might either precede the appearance of motor symptoms, or develop during the disease course. PD patients with RBD are charact...
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Open AccessCorrection to: The Italian tremor Network (TITAN): rationale, design and preliminary findings
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Open AccessCorticobasal syndrome and Parkinson’s disease at the beginning: asymmetrical patterns of MRI and Blink Reflex for early diagnosis
Differential diagnosis between Parkinson’s disease (PD) and corticobasal syndrome (CBS) could be challenging at the early stage, due to the asymmetric onset of both diseases. Despite the clinical overlap, the ...
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Open AccessDo demographic and clinical features and comorbidities affect the risk of spread to an additional body site in functional motor disorders?
The aim of this study is to assess changes in the body distribution and the semeiology of functional motor disorder (FMD) in patients who reported only one or more than one body site affected at FMD onset. Dat...
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Open AccessThe Italian tremor Network (TITAN): rationale, design and preliminary findings
The recently released classification has revised the nosology of tremor, defining essential tremor (ET) as a syndrome and fueling an enlightened debate about some newly conceptualized entities such as ET-plus....
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Open AccessExecutive functioning and serum lipid fractions in Parkinson’s disease—a possible sex-effect: the PACOS study
The association between dyslipidemia and cognitive performance in Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients still needs to be clarified. Aim of the study was to evaluate the presence of possible associations between s...
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Open AccessObsessive–compulsive personality disorder in rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder
Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a common prodromic non-motor symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Only few studies have evaluated the personality of RBD patients with conflicting results. A...
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Burden of Parkinson’s disease in Sicily: a health administrative database study
Prevalence of Parkinson’s disease (PD) increases with the advanced ages, representing a relevant health burden. Accurate prevalence estimates are of fundamental need in order to adjust the supply of health ser...
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Pure sensitive chronic inflammatory axonal polyneuropathy following Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
During the worldwide mass vaccination campaign against SARS-CoV-2, multiple side effects have been observed. We described the case of a patient who developed pure sensitive chronic inflammatory axonal polyneur...
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Open AccessFunctional motor phenotypes: to lump or to split?
Functional motor disorders (FMDs) are usually categorized according to the predominant phenomenology; however, it is unclear whether this phenotypic classification mirrors the underlying pathophysiologic mecha...
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Open AccessStructural MRI substrate of long-duration response to levodopa in Parkinson’s disease: an exploratory study
The long-duration response (LDR) to L-dopa is a sustained benefit deriving from chronic administration of therapy to patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Almost all patients with early PD may develop the LDR t...
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Open AccessExome-wide association study of levodopa-induced dyskinesia in Parkinson’s disease
Levodopa is the standard long-term dopamine replacement therapy to treat Parkinson’s disease (PD) symptoms. With time, levodopa may induce debilitating dyskinesias (LID), the treatment of which represents a la...
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Neuroanatomical changes in early Parkinson’s disease with mild cognitive impairment: a VBM study; the Parkinson’s Disease Cognitive Impairment Study (PaCoS)
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is common in Parkinson’s disease (PD), but the underlying pathological mechanism has not been fully understood. Voxel-based morphometry could be used to evaluate regional atroph...
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Acute motor effects induced by opioid antagonists in Parkinson’s disease: could naloxone be a rescue therapy?
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iNPH with parkinsonism: response to lumbar CSF drainage and ventriculoperitoneal shunting
To evaluate clinical response after external lumbar drainage (ELD) and ventriculoperitoneal shunting (VPS) in a cohort of patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus associated with parkinsonism (iN...
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Open AccessVascular risk factors, white matter lesions and cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease: the PACOS longitudinal study
Vascular risk factors (VRFs) may be associated with cognitive decline in early Parkinson’s disease (PD) but results are inconclusive. The identification of modifiable risk factors is relevant for prevention an...
