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Open AccessCorrection to: The Italian tremor Network (TITAN): rationale, design and preliminary findings
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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 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 AccessAn attempt to dissect a peripheral marker based on cell pathology in Parkinson's disease
Peripheral markers in Parkinson’s disease (PD) represent a hot issue to provide early diagnosis and assess disease progression. The gold standard marker of PD should feature the same reliability as the pathoge...
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Open AccessLevodopa–carbidopa intrajejunal infusion in Parkinson’s disease: untangling the role of age
Levodopa–Carbidopa Intrajejunal gel (LCIG) infusion is an effective intervention for people with advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD). Although age may not be a limiting factor for LCIG implant, no data are avail...
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Validation of the Italian version of the PSP Quality of Life questionnaire
Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a rare rapidly progressive, neurodegenerative disease characterized by falls and ocular movement disturbances. The use of health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) measur...
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Validation of the Italian version of carers’ quality-of-life questionnaire for parkinsonism (PQoL Carer) in progressive supranuclear palsy
Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a rare, rapidly progressive, neurodegenerative disease characterized by falls and ocular movement disturbances. Caring for a partner or relative who suffers from PSP ent...
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Correction to: Continuous subcutaneous apomorphine infusion in Parkinson’s disease: causes of discontinuation and subsequent treatment strategies
The published version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake in Table 2. CGI-S and CGI-I values has been interchanged. The Table is corrected here.
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Continuous subcutaneous apomorphine infusion in Parkinson’s disease: causes of discontinuation and subsequent treatment strategies
Continuous subcutaneous apomorphine infusion (CSAI) is a well-recognized therapeutic option for the management of motor fluctuations in Parkinson’s disease (PD), although clinical experience suggests that most...
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Daytime sleepiness may be an independent symptom unrelated to sleep quality in Parkinson’s disease
Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) may represent a disabling non-motor symptom in patients affected by Parkinson’s disease (PD). This is a secondary analysis of a previous study documenting the improvement of ...
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Does fatigue in Parkinson’s disease correlate with autonomic nervous system dysfunction?
Despite its negative impact on quality of life, fatigue in Parkinson’s disease (PD) remains an under-recognized issue and the underlying pathology is undetermined.
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Successful subthalamic stimulation, but levodopa-induced dystonia, in a genetic Parkinson’s disease
Recently, it is under scrutiny the possibility to anticipate the stereotactic implantation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) even in relatively mild Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients with an unsatisfying respon...
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CSF and clinical hallmarks of subcortical dementias: focus on DLB and PDD
Dementia has become a relevant problem associated with the elderly in our countries. Increased interest in the field has yielded a copious literature, so far mostly centered on Alzheimer’s dementia. Cerebrospi...
