Publications by authors named "Segolene De Waele"
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- The study evaluates the reliability of the Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale (TWSTRS) to assess cervical dystonia through video ratings.
- Three different professionals independently rated the videos, and their agreement was measured using the intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC).
- Results showed good reliability for the overall severity score, but varied among individual rating items, highlighting the need for clearer definitions in certain subscales.
Introduction: Gait initiation is preceded by three anticipatory postural adjustment (APA) phases. In Parkinson's disease (PD) generated force, displacement and timing during APA differ from healthy controls. APA might be influenced by disease status, weight or emotion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFApathy is a neurobehavioural symptom affecting Parkinson's disease patients of all disease stages. Apathy seems to be associated with a specific underlying non-motor disease subtype and reflects dysfunction of separate neural networks with distinct neurotransmitter systems. Due to the complicated neuropsychiatric aetiology of apathy, clinical assessment of this invalidating non-motor symptom remains challenging.
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