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Francesca Morgante

0000-0002-9834-3639

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How many parkinsonian patients are suitable candidates for deep brain stimulation of subthalamic nucleus? Results of a questionnaire.

2008

We used a CAPSIT-based questionnaire to estimate the percentage of parkinsonian patients suitable for subthalamic nucleus (STN) deep brain stimulation (DBS) in a movement disorders clinic. We found that out of 641 consecutive PD patients only 1.6% fulfilled strict STN-DBS criteria. When we applied more flexible criteria, the percentage of eligibility increased to 4.5%. Most patients (60%) were ineligible because they did not satisfy multiple questionnaire items. Items related to disease severity were responsible for the largest number of exclusions. This knowledge will help make decisions on resource allocation in centres wishing to start DBS surgery.

AdultMalemedicine.medical_specialtyParkinson's diseaseMovement disordersNeurologyDeep brain stimulationDeep Brain Stimulationmedicine.medical_treatmentParkinson Desease Deep Brain StimulationAudiologybehavioral disciplines and activitiesDisease severityParkinsonian DisordersSubthalamic NucleusSurveys and QuestionnairesmedicineHumansAgedChi-Square Distributionbusiness.industryPatient SelectionMiddle Agedmedicine.diseasenervous system diseasesSubthalamic nucleussurgical procedures operativenervous systemNeurologyCAPSIT; Parkinson's disease; Questionnaire; STN DBS; Adult; Aged; Chi-Square Distribution; Deep Brain Stimulation; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Parkinsonian Disorders; Subthalamic Nucleus; Surveys and Questionnaires; Patient Selection; Aging; Neurology (clinical); NeurologyPhysical therapyFemaleSettore MED/26 - NeurologiaNeurology (clinical)medicine.symptomGeriatrics and GerontologyPsychologybusinesstherapeuticsNeuroscienceNeurology; Geriatrics and Gerontology; Neurology (clinical)
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Clinical Correlates of Functional Motor Disorders: An Italian Multicenter Study

2020

Background\ud Functional motor disorders (FMDs) are abnormal movements that are significantly altered by distractive maneuvers and are incongruent with movement disorders seen in typical neurological diseases.\ud \ud Objective\ud The objectives of this article are to (1) describe the clinical manifestations of FMDs, including nonmotor symptoms and occurrence of other functional neurological disorders (FND); and (2) to report the frequency of isolated and combined FMDs and their relationship with demographic and clinical variables.\ud \ud Methods\ud For this multicenter, observational study, we enrolled consecutive outpatients with a definite diagnosis of FMDs attending 25 tertiary movement …

0301 basic medicineWeaknessPediatricsmedicine.medical_specialtyMovement disordersfunctional neurological disordersdiagnosisPopulationfunctional weakneDisease030105 genetics & heredityfunctional weakness03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicinefunctional neurological disordermedicineeducationResearch Articleseducation.field_of_studyfunctional neurological disorders; functional dystonia; functional tremor; functional weakness; diagnosisbusiness.industryfunctional neurological disorders functional dystonia functional tremor functional weakness diagnosisFunctional weaknessfunctional dystoniatremorNeurologyMulticenter studyAnxietyfunctional tremorSettore MED/26 - NeurologiaObservational studydystoniaNeurology (clinical)medicine.symptombusinessfunctional neurological disorders functional dystonia functional tremor functional weakness diagnosis.030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Anderson‐Fabry Disease: A Rare Cause of Levodopa‐Responsive Early‐Onset Parkinsonism

2021

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medicine.medical_specialtyLevodopabusiness.industryEarly onset parkinsonismGastroenterologyAnderson-Fabry DiseaseNeurologyInternal medicinemedicineAnderson-Fabry disease early onset parkinsonism levodopa response lysosomal storage diseasesSettore MED/26 - NeurologiaNeurology (clinical)businessCase Reports and Commentariesmedicine.drugMovement Disorders Clinical Practice
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Commentary: Anderson‐Fabry Disease: A Rare Cause of Levodopa‐Responsive Early Onset Parkinsonism

2021

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Pediatricsmedicine.medical_specialtyLevodopaAnderson-Fabry DiseaseNeurologybusiness.industrymedicineAnderson-Fabry disease early onset parkinsonism levodopa response lysosomal storage diseasesNeurology (clinical)Early onset parkinsonismbusinessCase Reports and Commentariesmedicine.drugMovement Disorders Clinical Practice
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COGNITIVE PROCESSING OF SENSORY STIMULI IN CERVICAL DYSTONIA

2015

Objective: Investigation of spatial and temporal recognition in Cervical Dystonia (CD). Methods: Four neuropsychological tasks, based on perception in time and space domains of visual and acoustic stimuli, were given to twenty-two CD patients and twenty-two age-matched healthy controls (C). Repeated measure ANOVA was run on group (CD, C), either pooling type of task (spatial, temporal) and type of stimuli (visual, acoustic) factors coming from all tasks either investigating single tasks. Results: In pooled analysis we found that CD were less accurate than C (F¼6.080, p¼0.018). In particular CD were worse in spatial-acoustic task (F¼5.839, p¼0.020). Significant differences were detected, eva…

Settore M-PSI/02 - Psicobiologia E Psicologia Fisiologicaspatial and temporal recognition
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