Why is music therapeutic for neurological disorders? The Therapeutic Music Capacities Model

O Brancatisano, A Baird, WF Thompson - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2020 - Elsevier
Music has cognitive, psychosocial, behavioral and motor benefits for people with
neurological disorders such as dementia, stroke, Parkinson's disease (PD) and Autism …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning approaches for detecting freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease patients through on-body acceleration sensors

L Sigcha, N Costa, I Pavón, S Costa, P Arezes… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Freezing of gait (FOG) is one of the most incapacitating motor symptoms in Parkinson's
disease (PD). The occurrence of FOG reduces the patients' quality of live and leads to falls …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence supports PA prescription for Parkinson's disease: Motor symptoms and non-motor features: A scoping review

YC Cheng, CH Su - International journal of environmental research and …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a prevalent neurodegenerative disorder, which relates to not
only motor symptoms, but also cognitive, autonomic, and mood impairments. The literature …

Musical pleasure beneficially alters stride and arm swing amplitude during rhythmically-cued walking in people with Parkinson's disease

KS Park, CJ Hass, B Patel, CM Janelle - Human movement science, 2020 - Elsevier
Entrainment of walking to rhythmic auditory cues (eg, metronome and/or music) improves
gait in people with Parkinson's disease (PD). Studies on healthy individuals indicate that …

Visual self-motion cues are impaired yet overweighted during visual–vestibular integration in Parkinson's disease

S Yakubovich, S Israeli-Korn, O Halperin… - Brain …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Parkinson's disease is prototypically a movement disorder. Although perceptual and motor
functions are highly interdependent, much less is known about perceptual deficits in …

Increased symmetry of lower-limb amputees walking with concurrent bilateral vibrotactile feedback

E Martini, I Cesini, J D'Abbraccio… - … on Neural Systems …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gait asymmetry in lower-limb amputees can lead to several secondary conditions that can
decrease general health and quality of life. Including augmented sensory feedback in …

[HTML][HTML] Multimodal balance training supported by rhythmical auditory stimuli in Parkinson's disease: a randomized clinical trial

TTC Capato, NM de Vries, J IntHout… - Journal of …, 2020 - content.iospress.com
Background: Balance impairment in Parkinson's disease (PD) improves only partially with
dopaminergic medication. Therefore, non-pharmacological interventions such as …

Multimodal balance training supported by rhythmic auditory stimuli in Parkinson disease: effects in freezers and nonfreezers

TTC Capato, NM de Vries, J IntHout, J Ramjith… - Physical …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Objective To fulfill the potential of nonpharmacological interventions for people with
Parkinson disease (PD), individually tailored treatment is needed. Multimodal balance …

Effects of pitch and tempo of auditory rhythms on spontaneous movement entrainment and stabilisation

M Varlet, R Williams, PE Keller - Psychological research, 2020 - Springer
Human movements spontaneously entrain to auditory rhythms, which can help to stabilise
movements in time and space. The properties of auditory rhythms supporting the occurrence …

[HTML][HTML] Effectiveness of 6-week Nordic walking training on functional performance, gait quality, and quality of life in Parkinson's disease

J Szefler-Derela, M Arkuszewski, A Knapik… - Medicina, 2020 - mdpi.com
Background and objectives: Motor rehabilitation improves physical mobility and quality of life
in Parkinson's disease (PD). As specialized rehabilitation is expensive and resource …