Comparison of strength training, aerobic training, and additional physical therapy as supplementary treatments for Parkinson's disease: pilot study.

Introduction: Physical rehabilitation is commonly used in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) to improve their health and alleviate the symptoms.

Objective: We compared the effects of three programs, strength training (ST), aerobic training (AT), and physiotherapy, on motor symptoms, functional capacity, and electroencephalographic (EEG) activity in PD patients.

Methods: Twenty-two patients were recruited and randomized into three groups: AT (70% of maximum heart rate), ST (80% of one repetition maximum), and physiotherapy (in groups).

Cognitive disconnective syndrome by single strategic strokes in vascular dementia.

Strategic regions correspond to associative, limbic and paralimbic structures and related circuits, that underpin cognitive/behavioral functions. Strokes in these eloquent sites produce pictures of vascular dementia with syndromic features due to specific site lesion and/or interruption of their interconnections. This study aims at analysing subcortical strategic strokes that express similar cognitive/behavioral elements, by sharing common pathways.

Alzheimer's disease and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy of limbic regions: a suggestion of a clinical-spectroscopic staging.

Objective: To compare magnetic resonance proton spectroscopic with clinical data and to propose a spectroscopic staging of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

Method: Subjects (n = 46), normals (12) and with AD (34), paired to age (CDR0-CDR3); AD diagnosis according to DSM-IV/NINCDS-ADRDA criteria; 1H-MRS with Signa Horizon LX-GE, 1.5T; single voxel at hippocampal region/HCR and posterior cingulate area/PCA.