Instrumental Methods and Scoring in Extrapyramidal Disorders - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 3540578757 ISBN 13: 9783540578758

Casa editrice: Springer Verlag, 1995

Riassunto

Medical progress requires improved standards in the evaluation of therapy, in quality assurance, and in diagnostics. Increased interest is therefore focused on the direct assessment of performance and disturbances. Methods currently available include rating scales and apparative procedures. However, problems associated with these methods and the great variety in existing procedures make it necessary to establish general standards. The present volume is the result of a symposium on the use of current performance methodologies in the evaluation of extrapyramidal motor disturbances. The results presented here show that the greatest difficulties lie in early evaluation of therapeutic success and the recognition of the disturbances at an early stage. This book presents an overview of the current procedures and thus will serve a basis for further improvement and standardisation.

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Contenuti

Theoretical Basics of Rating Scales.- The Hoehn and Yahr Rating Scale for Parkinson’s Disease.- A Rational Basis for a New Scoring System Measuring Disability in Parkinson’s Disease.- Depression Inventories in Parkinson’s Disease.- Selecting Neurologic Function Tests for Parkinson’s Disease: A Primer.- Measurement of Muscle Tone — Demarcation Between Spasticity and Rigidity.- Instrumental Assessment of Rigidity.- Tremor Assessment in Clinical Trials.- Frequency, Amplitude and Waveform Characteristics of Physiologic and Pathologic Tremors.- Interaction Between Voluntary and Involuntary Movements.- Long-Term Measurement of Tremor.- Kinematics of Standing Posture Associated with Aging and Parkinson’s Disease.- Differential Diagnosis of Organic and Psychogenic Vertigo Using Dynamic Posturography.- Relevance of Posturographic Parameters in the Differential Diagnosis of Parkinsonism.- Quantification of Dopaminomimetic Effects on Parkinsonian Symptoms Using Automatic and Voluntary Postural Responses.- Posturography in Parkinson’s Disease Patients on and off Medication.- Tracking Measures of Movement.- Kinematic Analysis of Complex Movements in Parkinson’s Disease.- The Age Function of Normative Data for a Personal Computer-based Test System for the Analysis and Quantification of Manual Movement Disability.- Quantitative Clinical Evaluation of Parkinsonism Based on Visuomotor Tracking and Tracing.- Kinematic Properties of Upper Limb Movement Trajectories.- Use of Quantitative Assessment in Evaluating Patients with Neural Transplants.- Measurement of Diadochokinesia.- The Complexity Effect as an Indicator for the Parkinson Plus Syndrome.- Quantitative Assessment of Akinesia in Parkinson’s Disease.- Motor Performance Test after Schoppe and Clinical Rating Scales — A Comparison.

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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3540578757
• ISBN 13: 9783540578758
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 282
• Redattore: Przuntek H.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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