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Tremor

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Exploring the pathological interaction between LRRK2 and alpha-synuclein : two key genes implicated in Parkinson's disease

Alessandra Musso

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the most common age-related neurodegenerative movement disorder that affects 1-2% of the general population over the age of 65 and rising to 4-5% over 80 years of age. It is estimated that 6.3 million people worldwide have Parki ...

EPFL2014

Effect of realistic modeling of deep brain stimulation on the prediction of volume of active tissue

Juan Ramon Mosig, Laleh Golestanirad

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a well-established treatment for Parkinson's disease, essential tremor and dystonia. It has also been successfully applied to treat various other neurological and psychiatric conditions including depression and obsessive-com ...

The Electromagnetic Academy2012

Preliminary evidence for a fronto-parietal dysfunction in able-bodied participants with a desire for limb amputation

Olaf Blanke, Peter Andreas Brugger

BACKGROUND: Reports of able-bodied participants with the persisting desire for limb amputation raise legal and ethical questions that are partly due to insufficient empirical knowledge about the condition. Here, we searched for potential neurological mecha ...

British Psychological Society2009

Quantification of tremor and bradykinesia in Parkinson’s disease using a novel ambulatory monitoring system

Kamiar Aminian, Arash Salarian

An ambulatory system for quantification of tremor and bradykinesia in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) is presented. To record movements of the upper extremities, a sensing units which included miniature gyroscopes, has been fixed to each of the fore ...

2007

Orthèses fonctionnelles à cinématique parallèle et sérielle pour la rééducation des membres inférieurs

Carl Schmitt

Robotics applied to rehabilitation requires specific manipulators: Powered Orthoses. They are orthopedic devices equipped with motors and captors that enable locomotor assistance. These powered orthoses must be capable of reproducing physiological articula ...

EPFL2007

Expression of mutated huntingtin fragment in the putamen is sufficient to produce abnormal movement in non-human primates

Patrick Aebischer, Nicole Déglon

Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurological disorder characterized by striatal degeneration, motor symptoms and complex neuropsychiatric alterations. There is currently no genetic model of HD in non-human primates (NHPs). In this study we investigated neur ...

2007

Ambulatory monitoring of motor functions in patients with Parkinson's disease using kinematic sensors

Arash Salarian

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease in the general population. Cardinal symptoms of Parkinson's disease are resting tremor, rigidity, akinesia and bradykinesia and in advanced stages, gait impairments, postural inst ...

EPFL2006