Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
15
Published: Oct. 10, 2023
Motor-cognitive
interactive
interventions,
such
as
action
observation
training
(AOT),
have
shown
great
potential
in
restoring
cognitive
function
and
motor
behaviors.
It
is
expected
that
an
advanced
AOT
incorporating
specific
Tai
Chi
movements
with
continuous
spiral
characteristics
can
facilitate
the
shift
from
automatic
to
intentional
actions
thus
enhance
control
ability
for
early-stage
PD.
Nonetheless,
underlying
neural
mechanisms
remain
unclear.
The
study
aimed
investigate
changes
brain
functional
connectivity
(FC)
clinical
improvement
after
12
weeks
of
Chi-based
(TC-AOT)
compared
traditional
physical
therapy
(TPT).Thirty
PD
patients
were
recruited
randomly
assigned
TC-AOT
group
(N
=
15)
or
TPT
15).
All
participants
underwent
resting-state
magnetic
resonance
imaging
(rs-fMRI)
scans
before
assessments.
FCs
evaluated
by
seed-based
correlation
analysis
based
on
default
mode
network
(DMN).
rehabilitation
effects
two
methods
while
correlations
between
significant
FC
investigated.The
results
showed
exhibited
significantly
increased
dorsal
medial
prefrontal
cortex
cerebellum
crus
I,
posterior
inferior
parietal
lobe
supramarginal
gyrus,
temporal
junction
clusters
middle
occipital
gyrus
superior
temporal.
Moreover,
these
had
a
positive
relationship
patients'
improved
performance.The
finding
supported
promotes
outcomes
promoting
neuroplasticity
where
involved
integration
sensorimotor
processing
learning
strengthened.
BMC Geriatrics,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
22(1)
Published: April 29, 2022
Abstract
Background
Parkinson's
disease
(PD)
is
the
second
most
prevalent
neurodegenerative
disorder,
impairing
balance
and
motor
function.
Virtual
reality
(VR)
imagery
(MI)
are
emerging
techniques
for
rehabilitating
people
with
PD.
VR
MI
combination
have
not
been
studied
in
PD
patients.
This
study
was
conducted
to
investigate
combined
effects
of
on
balance,
function,
activities
daily
living
(ADLs)
patients
Methods
a
single-centered,
two-armed,
parallel-designed
randomized
controlled
trial.
A
total
44
either
gender
who
had
idiopathic
were
randomly
allocated
into
two
groups
using
lottery
methods.
Both
received
Physical
therapy
(PT)
treatment,
while
experimental
group
(N:
20)
addition
PT.
assigned
treatment
three
days
week
alternate
12
weeks.
The
Unified
Parkinson’s
Disease
Rating
Scale
(UPDRS)
(parts
II
III),
Berg
Balance
(BBS),
Activities-specific
Confidence
(ABC)
used
as
outcome
measures
ADLs.
baseline,
6
th
,
weeks
assessed,
16
follow-up
measure
retention.
data
analysed
SPSS
24.
Results
showed
significant
improvement
function
than
control
UPDRS
part
III,
32.45±3.98
vs.
31.86±4.62
before
15.05±7.16
25.52±7.36
at
12-weeks,
p
-value
<
0.001.
At
weeks,
group's
BBS
scores
improved
from
38.95±3.23
51.36±2.83,
confidence
considerably,
59.26±5.87to
81.01±6.14,
ADL
well,
going
22.00±4.64
13.07±4.005
after
Conclusion
routine
PT
significantly
ADLs
compared
alone.
Trial
registration
IRCT20200221046567N1
.
Date
registration:
01/04/2020
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
27(11), P. 5216 - 5224
Published: July 5, 2023
Parkinson's
disease
(PD)
is
a
complicated
neurological
ailment
that
affects
both
the
physical
and
mental
wellness
of
elderly
individuals
which
makes
it
problematic
to
diagnose
in
its
initial
stages.
Electroencephalogram
(EEG)
promises
be
an
efficient
cost-effective
method
for
promptly
detecting
cognitive
impairment
PD.
Nevertheless,
prevailing
diagnostic
practices
utilizing
EEG
features
have
failed
examine
functional
connectivity
among
channels
response
associated
brain
areas
causing
unsatisfactory
level
precision.
Here,
we
construct
attention-based
sparse
graph
convolutional
neural
network
(ASGCNN)
diagnosing
Our
ASGCNN
model
uses
structure
represent
channel
relationships,
attention
mechanism
selecting
channels,
L1
norm
capture
sparsity.
We
conduct
extensive
experiments
on
publicly
available
PD
auditory
oddball
dataset,
consists
24
patients
(under
ON/OFF
drug
status)
matched
controls,
validate
effectiveness
our
method.
results
show
proposed
provides
better
compared
baselines.
The
achieved
scores
Recall,
Precision,
F1-score,
Accuracy
Kappa
measures
are
90.36%,
88.43%,
88.41%,
87.67%,
75.24%,
respectively.
study
reveals
frontal
temporal
lobes
significant
differences
between
healthy
individuals.
In
addition,
extracted
by
demonstrate
asymmetry
lobe
patients.
These
findings
can
offer
basis
establishment
clinical
system
intelligent
diagnosis
using
features.
Brain Sciences,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
13(3), P. 437 - 437
Published: March 3, 2023
Rehabilitation
is
a
high-potential
approach
to
improving
physical
and
cognitive
functions
in
Parkinson’s
disease
(PD).
Dual-task
training
innovatively
combines
motor
rehabilitation
comprehensive
module.
Patients
perform
tasks
at
the
same
time
dual-task
training.
The
previous
studies
of
PD
had
high
heterogeneity
achieved
controversial
results.
In
current
review,
we
aim
summarize
evidence
effect
on
patients
support
clinical
practice
addition,
also
discuss
opinions
regarding
mechanism
underlying
interaction
between
conclusion,
suitable
for
with
varied
duration
improve
their
function.
can
symptoms,
single-task
gait
speed,
steep
length,
balance,
objective
experience
freezing
PD.
improvement
function
after
mild.
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
12
Published: Nov. 9, 2022
Recent
evidence
demonstrated
that
functional
bacteria
were
involved
in
the
regulation
of
Parkinson's
disease
(PD).
However,
mechanism
probiotics
improving
PD
was
unclear.
Here
antioxidant
effect
and
Pediococcus
pentosaceus
(PP)
on
studied
by
regulating
gut-brain
axis.
In
this
study,
male
C57BL/6J
mice
injected
with
1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine
(MPTP)
intraperitoneally
to
establish
a
model
then
treated
PP
for
4
weeks.
Subsequently,
series
neurobehavioral
tests
evaluate
motor
function
performed.
Additionally,
degeneration
dopaminergic
neurons,
accumulation
α-synuclein,
production
an
oxidative
stress
response,
expression
nuclear
factor
erythroid
2-related
2
(Nrf2)
pathway-related
proteins
evaluated.
Moreover,
gut
microbial
composition
level
metabolite
γ-aminobutyric
acid
(GABA)
assessed.
The
results
showed
treatment
could
improve
MPTP-induced
deficits,
α-synuclein.
significantly
increased
levels
SOD1,
Gpx1,
Nrf2,
while
it
decreased
Keap1
brain
mice.
Notably,
improved
dysbiosis
GABA
These
findings
indicated
might
represent
promising
candidate,
due
GABA,
be
used
PD.
Heliyon,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
10(2), P. e24300 - e24300
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
This
study
aims
to
explore
the
dynamic
balance
of
human
beings
and
investigate
relationship
between
functional
structure
as
well
connectivity.
Through
a
comprehensive
bibliometric
visual
analysis
research
literature
from
1995
2022,
we
quantitatively
display
development
brain
connection.
Our
objective
is
present
new
trends
frontiers
in
function
through
bibliometrics
software,
providing
valuable
insights
for
future
this
domain.
npj Parkinson s Disease,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
8(1)
Published: Sept. 6, 2022
Abstract
Parkinson’s
disease
(PD)
patients
can
be
classified
in
tremor-dominant
(TD)
and
postural-instability-and-gait-disorder
(PIGD)
motor
subtypes.
PIGD
represents
a
more
aggressive
form
of
the
that
TD
have
potentiality
converting
into.
This
study
investigated
functional
alterations
within
cerebro-cerebellar
system
PD-TD
PD-PIGD
using
stepwise
connectivity
(SFC)
analysis
identified
neuroimaging
features
predict
to
conversion.
Thirty-two
PD-TD,
26
60
healthy
controls
performed
clinical/cognitive
evaluations
resting-state
MRI
(fMRI).
Four-year
clinical
follow-up
data
were
available
for
28
patients,
who
10
converters
(cTD-PD)
18
non-converters
(ncTD-PD)
PIGD.
The
cerebellar
seed-region
was
fMRI
task.
SFC
analysis,
characterizing
regions
connect
brain
areas
seed
at
different
levels
link-step
distances,
evaluated
similar
divergent
PD-PIGD.
discriminatory
power
and/or
distinguishing
cPD-TD
from
ncPD-TD
assessed
ROC
curve
analysis.
Compared
showed
decreased
temporal
lobe
occipital
lobes
increased
cortex
ponto-medullary
junction.
Considering
subtype-conversion
characterized
by
cerebellum
junction
relative
group.
Combining
data,
curves
provided
highest
classification
identify
conversion
These
findings
provide
novel
insights
into
pathophysiology
underlying
PD
phenotypes
potential
tool
early
characterization
risk
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
15
Published: March 24, 2023
Postural
control
impairment
is
one
of
the
primary
motor
symptoms
in
patients
with
Parkinson’s
disease,
leading
to
an
increased
risk
falling.
Several
studies
have
been
conducted
on
postural
disorders
disease
patients,
but
no
relevant
bibliometric
analysis
has
found.
In
this
paper,
Web
Science
Core
Collection
database
was
searched
for
1,295
papers
from
December
2011
2021.
Based
Citespace
knowledge
graph,
these
over
last
decade
were
analyzed
perspectives
annual
publication
volume,
countries
and
institutes
cooperation,
authors
dual-map
overlay
journals,
co-citation
literature,
keywords.
The
purpose
study
explore
current
research
status,
hotspots,
frontiers
field,
provide
a
reference
further
promoting
patients.
Journal of Parkinson s Disease,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
14(s1), P. S53 - S64
Published: Jan. 16, 2024
Action
observation
(AO)
and
motor
imagery
(MI)
has
emerged
as
promising
tool
for
physiotherapy
intervention
in
Parkinson’s
disease
(PD).
This
narrative
review
summarizes
why,
how,
when
applying
AO
MI
training
individual
with
PD.
We
report
the
neural
underpinning
of
their
effects
on
learning.
examine
characteristics
current
evidence
regarding
effectiveness
interventions
we
provide
suggestions
about
implementation
technologies.
Neurophysiological
data
suggest
a
substantial
correct
activation
brain
networks
underlying
people
PD,
although
occurrence
compensatory
mechanisms
been
documented.
Regarding
efficacy
training,
general
indicates
that
both
these
techniques
improve
mobility
functional
activities
However,
findings
should
be
interpreted
caution
due
to
variety
study
designs,
characteristics,
modalities
which
were
applied.
Finally,
results
long-term
are
still
uncertain.
Several
elements
considered
optimize
use
clinical
setting,
such
selection
task,
or
video
perspectives,
training.
comprehensive
assessment,
including
cognitive
abilities,
is
essential
select
between
suite
best
each
PD
patients.
Much
unrealized
potential
exists
personalized
aimed
at
fostering
learning
clinic
home
setting.