Dancing and Parkinson’s disease: updates on this creative approach to therapy

Stem cell-based approach for the treatment of Parkinson\'s disease

  Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative brain disorder which is around 1.5 times more common in men than in women. Currently, drug medications, surgery, and lifestyle changes are common approaches to PD, while all of them focused on reducing the symptoms. Therefore, regenerative medicine based on stem cell (SC) therapies has raised a promising hope. Various types ...

Dancing with Disease: A Dancer’s Reflections on Moving with People with Parkinson’s and Memory Loss

I am a professional dancer, choreographer, and Alexander Technique instructor. I joined the Performing Arts faculty at Washington University in St. Louis in 1994, where I teach contemporary concert art dance and somatic practices. Dancing is fundamentally a study of coordination, balance, and movement control. Because these essential goals are shared in movement therapies, I have become interes...

Drug Switching, a Creative Approach to Leukemia Therapy

The Effects of Bilateral Subthalamic Nucleus Stimulation on Cognitive and Neuropsychiatric Functions in Parkinson’s Disease: A Case-Control Study

Introduction: Parkinson’s disease is one of the most disabling diseases which by electrode implantation and stimulation of subthalamic nucleus (STN), much progress has been made in the treatment of drug resistant patient. This new method of neurosurgery may have some neuropsychological side effects on the patients. The main aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of this kind of treatment ...

Detection and Classification for Freezing of Gaits in Parkinson’s Disease Using Inertial Measurement Units

Freezing of Gaits(FOG) is a phenomenon in Parkinson’s Disease characterised by a short period of inability to initiate a gait or by a series of short steps with tremors on lower limbs, which mostly occurs when initiating gaits and turning. For researchers in health therapy, it is important to identify the instances of freezing of gait (FoG), in order to study the gait of a person suffering with...