Publications by authors named "Angelique Gerdelat"
Article Synopsis
- The announcement of Parkinson's disease (PD) diagnosis often leads to negative emotions for patients, impacting their coping strategies and overall adjustment to the condition.
- A national French survey involving 397 recent PwPD, along with their caregivers and healthcare professionals, found that 60% of patients were not expecting their diagnosis and 82% experienced negative feelings, particularly influenced by male gender and older age.
- There is a significant need for improved communication and support during the diagnosis process, as many PwPD and caregivers felt they lacked sufficient information and expressed a desire for multidisciplinary follow-up.
Small fiber neuropathies (SFN) induce pain and/or autonomic symptoms. The diagnosis of SFN poses a challenge because the role of skin biopsy as a reference method and of each neurophysiological test remain to be discussed. This study compares six methods evaluating small sensory and autonomic nerve fibers: skin biopsy, Quantitative Sensory Testing (QST), quantitative sweat measurement system (Q-Sweat), Laser Evoked Potentials (LEP), Electrochemical Skin Conductance (ESC) measurement and Autonomic CardioVascular Tests (ACVT).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Dry immersion is a ground-based experiment simulating the effects of weightlessness, and it is a model of acute symmetrical bilateral deafferentation. This exploratory study aimed to investigate the effects of three days of dry immersion (DI) on sensory thresholds and the functioning of lemniscal pathways, assessed by somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs).
Methods: Twelve healthy male volunteers (32+/-4.
Background: In Parkinson's disease (PD), chronic pain is a common symptom which markedly affects the quality of life. Some physiological arguments proposed that Deep Brain Stimulation of the Subthalamic Nucleus (STN-DBS) could improve pain in PD.
Methods: We investigated in 58 PD patients the effect of STN-DBS on pain using the short McGill Pain Questionnaire and other pain parameters such as the Bodily discomfort subscore of the Parkinson's disease Questionnaire 39 and the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale section II (UPDRS II) item 17.
Object: To this day, no parameter can really monitor the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS). In this study, an index the skewness (S) derived from parameters calculated in diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has been tested on MS patients for its ability to monitor the disease course.
Materials And Methods: Eighteen patients underwent two examinations within 3 months consisting of a clinical evaluation (EDSS) and DTI acquisitions on a 1.
Objective: We hypothesized that a single dose of methylphenidate (MP) would modulate cerebral motor activation and behavior in patients having suffered a subcortical stroke.
Methods: Eight men with a single stroke on the corticospinal tract resulting in a pure motor hemiparesia were included in a randomized, cross-over, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Patients were first evaluated 17 days after stroke onset by validated neurological scales, motor tests and fMRI (flexion/extension of the digits) after 20 mg MP or placebo.
The aim of this 1-year longitudinal fMRI study was to compare hand motor activation patterns between cerebrovascular paretic patients with a subcortical infarction and healthy elderly subjects and to evaluate the changes between the subacute phase and the chronic phase of recovery. We studied eight right-handed patients with pure motor hemiparesis due to a single ischemic infarct of the corticospinal tract. Each patient underwent a first fMRI (E1) 20 +/- 9 days after stroke, a second (E2) after 4 months and a third (E3) 12 months after stroke.
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