Modelling Parkinson's disease: iPSCs towards better understanding of human pathology

S Avazzadeh, JM Baena, C Keighron… - Brain Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor
and non-motor symptoms, among which are bradykinesia, rigidity, tremor as well as mental …

The impact of exercise intervention with rhythmic auditory stimulation to improve gait and mobility in parkinson disease: an umbrella review

R Forte, N Tocci, G De Vito - Brain sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Difficulties in walking, controlling balance, and performing activities of daily living are
common problems encountered by individuals affected by Parkinson disease. Scientific …

DeepFoG: an IMU-based detection of freezing of gait episodes in Parkinson's disease patients via deep learning

T Bikias, D Iakovakis, S Hadjidimitriou… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Freezing of Gait (FoG) is a movement disorder that mostly appears in the late stages of
Parkinson's Disease (PD). It causes incapability of walking, despite the PD patient's …

How groove in music affects gait

LA Leow, S Watson, D Prete, K Waclawik… - Experimental brain …, 2021 - Springer
Rhythmic auditory stimulation (RAS) is a gait intervention in which gait-disordered patients
synchronise footsteps to music or metronome cues. Musical 'groove', the tendency of music …

The role of mental imagery in Parkinson's disease rehabilitation

A Abraham, RP Duncan, GM Earhart - Brain Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a disabling neurodegenerative disease whose manifestations
span motor, sensorimotor, and sensory domains. While current therapies for PD include …

Towards real-time prediction of freezing of gait in patients with Parkinson's disease: a novel deep one-class classifier

N Naghavi, E Wade - IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Freezing of gait (FoG) is a common motor dysfunction in individuals with Parkinson's
disease. FoG impairs walking and is associated with increased fall risk. On-demand external …

Self‐motion perception in Parkinson's disease

O Halperin, S Israeli‐Korn… - European journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Parkinson's disease (PD), best characterized by its classic motor symptoms, also
manifests non‐motor symptoms including perceptual impairments. Normal motor and …

Modelling and identification of characteristic kinematic features preceding freezing of gait with convolutional neural networks and layer-wise relevance propagation

B Filtjens, P Ginis, A Nieuwboer, MR Afzal… - BMC medical informatics …, 2021 - Springer
Background Although deep neural networks (DNNs) are showing state of the art
performance in clinical gait analysis, they are considered to be black-box algorithms. In …

A comparative study of time frequency representation techniques for freeze of gait detection and prediction

T Ashfaque Mostafa, S Soltaninejad, TL McIsaac… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Freezing of Gait (FOG) is an impairment that affects the majority of patients in the advanced
stages of Parkinson's Disease (PD). FOG can lead to sudden falls and injuries, negatively …

Auditory Cue based on the Golden ratio can improve gait patterns in people with Parkinson's disease

V Belluscio, M Iosa, G Vannozzi, S Paravati, A Peppe - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
The harmonic structure of walking relies on an irrational number called the golden ratio (ϕ):
in healthy subjects, it coincides with the stride-to-stance ratio, and it is associated with a …