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…for patients, and in rising economic cost to the NHS and social care. For example, the prevalence of Parkinson’s disease (PD) in the UK is predicted to almost double between…
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…for patients, and in rising economic cost to the NHS and social care. For example, the prevalence of Parkinson’s disease (PD) in the UK is predicted to almost double between…
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…JA. Nicotinamide-N-methyltransferase controls behavior, neurodegeneration and lifespan by regulating neuronal autophagy. PLoS genetics. 2018;14(9):e1007561. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007561 Williams A, Ramsden D. Nicotinamide: a double edged sword. Parkinsonism & related disorders. 2005;11(7):413-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parkreldis.2005.05.011…
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…cite across the breadth of the topic, rather than concentrating on their own contributions. Personally, I found the chapters on paradoxes in Parkinson’s Disease (Ashwani Jha and Peter Brown) and…
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…risk. [11] Neurological conditions • Parkinson’s disease (may have comorbid OSA, and dopaminergic drugs can cause sleepiness). • Stroke is commonly associated with OSA. • Lesions affecting diencephalon and brainstem…
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…An argument for such a biology-first approach, agnosic to phenotype, with secondary definition of patient subgroups according to biomarkers, has previously been advocated for neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and…
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…side, or back, all four limbs agitated by tremor, mostly quick and rather fine… [5,2] The tremor becomes coarse, irregular, proximal, with a ‘wing beating’’ appearance. Dystonia can be focal or generalised. A tremor-rigidity syndrome (‘juvenile Parkinsonism’) should…
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…body dementia Lewy body dementia (LBD) and Parkinson’s disease dementia (PDD) together account for up to 15% of all dementias. Recognition and management of these dementias, though, is often suboptimal,…
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…to treat autoantibody-dominant mechanisms. Encephalitis Lethargica (EL) so-called postencephalitic parkinsonism which take decades to manifest itself and is estimated to have affected 1 million people between 1915 and 1930 [45]….
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…as Parkinson’s disease, but with preservation in (so called) psychogenic movement disorders. So, I wondered if my COVID-19-related lassitude/inertia/lethargy/avolition might possibly be a consequence of an inability to generate a…
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