The clinical diagnosis of Parkinson's disease

Autor: Renato P. Munhoz, Vitor Tumas, José Luiz Pedroso, Laura Silveira-Moriyama

Publikováno v: Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, Vol 82, Iss 06, Pp 001-010 (2024)

After more than 200 years since its initial description, the clinical diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD) remains an often-challenging endeavor, with broad implications that are fundamental for clinical management. Despite major developments in und

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Floor and ceiling effects on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment in patients with Parkinson’s disease in Brazil

Autor: Brenda Hanae Bentes Koshimoto, Pedro Renato de Paula Brandão, Vanderci Borges, Henrique Ballalai Ferraz, Artur Francisco Schumacher-Schuh, Carlos Roberto de Mello Rieder, Maira Rozenfeld Olchik, Ignacio Fernandez Mata, Vitor Tumas, Bruno Lopes Santos-Lobato

Publikováno v: Dementia & Neuropsychologia, Vol 17 (2023)

ABSTRACT Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disease associated with cognitive impairment. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) has been used as a recommended global cognition scale for patients with PD, but there are some co

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Assessment of different regions of interest-based methods for [99mTc]Tc DAT-SPECT quantification using an anthropomorphic striatal phantom

Autor: Leonardo Alexandre-Santos, Ana Carolina Trevisan, Felipe Arriva Pitella, Vitor Tumas, Jose Henrique Silvah, Mery Kato, Eder Rezende de Moraes, Lauro Wichert-Ana

Publikováno v: EJNMMI Physics, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2022)

Abstract Background and aims Molecular imaging of the dopamine transporters (DAT) provides valuable information about neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s. This study assessed the accuracy and precision of DAT-SPECT quantification method

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Establishing an online resource to facilitate global collaboration and inclusion of underrepresented populations: Experience from the MJFF Global Genetic Parkinson's Disease Project.

Autor: Eva-Juliane Vollstedt, Harutyun Madoev, Anna Aasly, Azlina Ahmad-Annuar, Bashayer Al-Mubarak, Roy N Alcalay, Victoria Alvarez, Ignacio Amorin, Grazia Annesi, David Arkadir, Soraya Bardien, Roger A Barker, Melinda Barkhuizen, A Nazli Basak, Vincenzo Bonifati, Agnita Boon, Laura Brighina, Kathrin Brockmann, Andrea Carmine Belin, Jonathan Carr, Jordi Clarimon, Mario Cornejo-Olivas, Leonor Correia Guedes, Jean-Christophe Corvol, David Crosiers, Joana Damásio, Parimal Das, Patricia de Carvalho Aguiar, Anna De Rosa, Jolanta Dorszewska, Sibel Ertan, Rosangela Ferese, Joaquim Ferreira, Emilia Gatto, Gençer Genç, Nir Giladi, Pilar Gómez-Garre, Hasmet Hanagasi, Nobutaka Hattori, Faycal Hentati, Dorota Hoffman-Zacharska, Sergey N Illarioshkin, Joseph Jankovic, Silvia Jesús, Valtteri Kaasinen, Anneke Kievit, Peter Klivenyi, Vladimir Kostic, Dariusz Koziorowski, Andrea A Kühn, Anthony E Lang, Shen-Yang Lim, Chin-Hsien Lin, Katja Lohmann, Vladana Markovic, Mika Henrik Martikainen, George Mellick, Marcelo Merello, Lukasz Milanowski, Pablo Mir, Özgür Öztop-Çakmak, Márcia Mattos Gonçalves Pimentel, Teeratorn Pulkes, Andreas Puschmann, Ekaterina Rogaeva, Esther M Sammler, Maria Skaalum Petersen, Matej Skorvanek, Mariana Spitz, Oksana Suchowersky, Ai Huey Tan, Pichet Termsarasab, Avner Thaler, Vitor Tumas, Enza Maria Valente, Bart van de Warrenburg, Caroline H Williams-Gray, Ruey-Mei Wu, Baorong Zhang, Alexander Zimprich, Justin Solle, Shalini Padmanabhan, Christine Klein

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 18, Iss 10, p e0292180 (2023)

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the fastest-growing neurodegenerative disorder, currently affecting ~7 million people worldwide. PD is clinically and genetically heterogeneous, with at least 10% of all cases explained by a monogenic cause or strong genet

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Is restless legs syndrome in Parkinson disease patients associated with any specific factor?

Autor: Manoel Alves SOBREIRA-NETO, Márcio Alexandre PENA-PEREIRA, Emmanuelle Silva Tavares SOBREIRA, Marcos Hortes Nisihara CHAGAS, Carlos Maurício Oliveira de ALMEIDA, Regina Maria França FERNANDES, Vitor TUMAS, Alan Luiz ECKELI

Publikováno v: Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, Vol 79, Iss 1, Pp 38-43 (2021)

ABSTRACT Background: Restless legs syndrome or Willis-Ekbom disease is a disorder characterized by unpleasant sensations associated with the need to mobilize the lower limbs. In Parkinson disease patients, restless legs syndrome is associated with wo

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