Publications by authors named "Maria Carmela Bloise"
Objective: The aim of the current study was to evaluate whether cognitive behavioral group therapy has a positive impact on psychiatric, and motor and non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD).
Methods: We assigned 20 PD patients with a diagnosis of psychiatric disorder to either a 12-week cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) group or a psychoeducational protocol. For the neurological examination, we administered the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale and the non-motor symptoms scale.
Introduction: Re-emergent tremor (RET) is a postural tremor that appears after a variable delay in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). The aim of the present study was to evaluate the occurrence and the clinical characteristics of RET in a population of patients with PD.
Methods: We consecutively assessed 210 patients with PD.
Purpose: To assess, using a longitudinal follow-up study design, the relationship between the body site of motor symptoms onset and that of dyskinesias (LID) onset in 70 PD patients in whom LID were absent at the baseline but appeared at one of the follow-up visits; to investigate the demographic and clinical features associated with different sites of LID onset.
Methods: Motor symptoms onset was retrospectively determined by asking patients which body part had first been affected by motor impairment. The site of LID onset was determined objectively in one of the follow-up visits.
Psychiatric disturbances in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy: a case-control study.
Parkinsonism Relat Disord
September 2014
Objectives: To investigate the frequency and the different types of psychiatric disturbances in PSP patients using validated psychiatric instruments.
Methods: We conducted a case-control study using the Structured Clinical Interview (SCID-I) for DSM-IV to investigate psychiatric disorders in 28 PSP patients and 28 age and gender matched healthy controls. PSP severity was scored using the PSP rating scale; cognitive functions were assessed using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment scale and the Frontal Assessment Battery scale.