Towards full remote programming for deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease: A case series.

People with Parkinson's disease (PwPD) who undergo deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery could benefit from remote programming (RP), which has proven to be both effective and economical. However, there is limited research on PwPD with DBS implants who have completed all programming sessions exclusively through remote means (full remote programming, FRP). This case report documents the experiences of five PwPD who underwent FRP, with four demonstrating improvements in motor symptoms, quality of life, and medication reduction.

Remote levodopa challenge test in Parkinson's disease: Feasibility, reliability, validity and economic value.

Background And Purpose: The aim was to demonstrate the feasibility, reliability and validity of an in-home remote levodopa challenge test (LCT), as delivered through an online platform, for patients with Parkinson's disease (PwPD).

Methods: Patients with Parkinson's disease eligible for deep brain stimulation surgery screening were enrolled. Participants sequentially received an in-home remote LCT and an in-hospital standard LCT (separated by 2.

Motor improvement of remote programming in patients with Parkinson's disease after deep brain stimulation: a 1-year follow-up.

Background: Remote programming (RP) is an emerging technology that enables the adjustment of implantable pulse generators (IPGs) via the Internet for people with Parkinson's disease (PwPD) who have undergone deep brain stimulation (DBS). Previous studies have not comprehensively explored the effectiveness of RP in managing motor symptoms, often omitting assessments such as the rigidity and retropulsion tests during the follow-up. This study evaluates the comprehensive improvements in motor performance and the potential cost benefits of RP for PwPD with DBS.

Telemedicine in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder after deep brain stimulation: a case series.

Background: Patients suffering from refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) who have undergone deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery require repeated in-person programming visits. These sessions could be labor-intensive and may not always be feasible, particularly when in-person hospital visits are restricted. Telemedicine is emerging as a potential supplementary tool for post-operative care.

Rescue subthalamic stimulation after unsatisfactory outcome of pallidal stimulation in Parkinson's disease: a case series and review.

Background: Subthalamic nucleus (STN) and globus pallidus interna (GPi) are two main structures primarily targeted by deep brain stimulation (DBS) to treat advanced Parkinson's disease (PD). A subset of cases with unsatisfactory outcomes may benefit from rescue DBS surgery targeting another structure, while these patients' characteristics have not been well described and this phenomenon has not been well reviewed.

Methods: This monocentric retrospective study included patients with PD, who underwent rescue STN DBS following an unsatisfactory outcome of the initial bilateral GPi DBS in a retrospective manner.

COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in patients with Parkinson's disease.

Background: As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination campaign underway, little is known about the vaccination coverage and the underlying barriers of the vaccination campaign in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD).

Objective: To investigate the vaccination status and reasons for COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy among PD patients.

Methods: In concordance with the CHERRIES guideline, a web-based, single-center survey was promoted to patients with PD an online platform from April 2022 and May 2022.

LncRNA NEAT1 promoted MPP+‑induced ferroptosis via regulating miR‑150‑5p/BAP1 pathway in SK‑N‑SH cells.

As widely reported, dysregulated ferroptosis is closely associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) progression. The goal of the present study was to probe the roles of long non‑coding RNA (lncRNA) nuclear enriched assembly transcript 1 (NEAT1) in regulating ferroptosis in PD. PD cell model was constructed by subjecting SK‑N‑SH cells to 1‑methyl‑4‑phenylpyridinium (MPP+) for 24 h.

[Effects of Stalk Incorporation on Soil Carbon Sequestration, Nitrous Oxide Emissions, and Global Warming Potential of a Winter Wheat-Summer Maize Field in Guanzhong Plain].

The net greenhouse gas emissions from upland soils, as indicated by global warming potential (GWP), mainly depend on the soil carbon sequestration and nitrous oxide (NO) emissions. The annual changes in surface (0-20 cm) soil organic carbon (SOC) content from 2010 to 2017 and the NO emissions from 2014 to 2017 were measured within a long-term fertilization experiment. The objective was to quantify the effect of stalk incorporation on the soil carbon sequestration, annual NO emissions, and GWP of a winter wheat-summer maize field in the Guanzhong Plain.

Intrinsic Aerobic Capacity Affects Hippocampal pAkt and HSP72 Response to an Acute High Fat Diet and Heat Treatment in Rats.

Background: Aerobic capacity is associated with metabolic, cardiovascular, and neurological health. Low-capacity runner (LCR) rats display low aerobic capacity, metabolic dysfuction, and spatial memory deficits. A heat treatment (HT) can improve metabolic dysfunction in LCR peripheral organs after high fat diet (HFD).

Visualization of multiple anatomical structures with explicit isosurface manipulation.

In medical image analysis and surgical planning, it is an essential task to visualize and differentiate multiple anatomical structures. The traditional approaches require expensive 3D segmentation steps during pre-processing stage, which defeats the purpose of real-time interaction with the data. In this paper, we propose an interactive method for visualization of multiple anatomical structures.

A new region descriptor for multi-modal medical image registration and region detection.

Establishing accurate anatomical correspondences plays a critical role in multi-modal medical image registration and region detection. Although many features based registration methods have been proposed to detect these correspondences, they are mostly based on the point descriptor which leads to high memory cost and could not represent local region information. In this paper, we propose a new region descriptor which depicts the features in each region, instead of in each point, as a vector.

Retinal vessel extraction by combining radial symmetry transform and iterated graph cuts.

In this paper, we propose a new method for the extraction of blood vessels in retinal images. This approach starts with a Hessian-based multiscale filtering method to enhance blood vessels in gray retinal images. Subsequently, a new radial symmetry transformation, which is based on line kernels, is proposed to improve the detection of vessel structures and restrain the response of nonvessel structures.