Title :
Quantifying the short-term effects of deep brain stimulation surgery on bradykinesia in Parkinson´s disease patients
Author :
Delrobaei, Mehdi ; Parrent, Andrew ; Jog, Mandar ; Tran, Stephanie ; Ognjanovic, Kristina ; Gilmore, Greydon ; Rahimi, Fariborz ; Mclsaac, Kenneth
Author_Institution :
London Health Sci. Center, London, ON, Canada
Abstract :
Clinical scale-based follow-up of patients undergoing bilateral subthalamic deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) surgery has shown inconsistent effects on bradykinesia in Parkinson´s disease patients. Furthermore, quantitative assessment of STN-DBS effect on bradykinesia has not been fully explored yet. Our group uses multisensory kinematic technologies to study short-term and long-term DBS effects on Parkinson´s disease. In this paper we present a kinematic analysis of the short term (3 month) effects of STN-DBS on bradykinesia in five PD patients and compare the results with data obtained from healthy age-matched controls.
Keywords :
biomechanics; brain; diseases; kinematics; neuromuscular stimulation; surgery; Parkinson´s disease; STN-DBS short term effects; STN-DBS surgery effect quantitative assessment; bilateral subthalamic deep brain stimulation; bradykinesia; healthy age-matched controls; long-term DBS effect; multisensory kinematic technologies; time 3 month; Biomedical engineering; Conferences; Decision support systems; Educational institutions; Hafnium; Parkinson´s disease; bradykinesia; deep brain stimulation; objective measures; slowness of movement;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Engineering (ICBME), 2014 21th Iranian Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-7417-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICBME.2014.7043926
