Pedunculopontine nucleus stimulation improves gait freezing in parkinson disease

Neurosurgery

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1248-1253

  Thevathasan, Wesley ^a,b   Coyne, Terry J ^d   Hyam, Jonathan A ^a   Kerr, Graham ^c   Jenkinson, Ned ^a   Aziz, Tipu Z ^a   Silburn, Peter A ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d St Andrews and Wesley Hospitals   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Deep brain stimulation; Gait freezing; Parkinson disease; Pedunculopontine nucleus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AKINESIA; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FALLING; FEMALE; GAIT AND FALL QUESTIONNAIRE SCORE; GAIT DISORDER; GAIT FREEZING; HUMAN; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PEDUNCULOPONTINE NUCLEUS STIMULATION; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; POSTURAL INSTABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNIFIED PARKINSON DISEASE RATING SCALE;

AGED; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80955136638     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31822b6f71     Document Type: Article

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