The mini-BESTest can predict parkinsonian recurrent fallers: a 6-month prospective study.

Objectives: To examine whether the Mini-Balance Evaluation Systems Test (Mini-BESTest) independently predicts recurrent falls in people with Parkinson's disease.

Design: The study used a longitudinal cohort design.

Subjects: A total of 110 patients with Parkinson's disease completed the study and were included in the final analysis.

Deep brain stimulation in a Chinese Tourette's syndrome patient.

A 31-year-old Chinese man with intractable severe, lifelong Tourette's syndrome characterised by forceful self-injurious motor tics and socially embarrassing vocal tics was treated with bilateral deep brain stimulation. Electrodes were implanted into the thalamic targets at the centromedian-parafascicular complex according to Hassler's nomenclature. A dramatic reduction of tics resulted.