Extrinsic and Behavioral Fall Risk Factors in People With Parkinsonâs Disease: An Integrative Review
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As rehab nurses, we know that our patients with Parkinson s disease are at high risk for falling. As patients balance and coordination decline and there are increasing limits on their functional activities, the risk becomes greater. Kuljeerung & Lach use the person-environment fit framework to identify fall risk factors as intrinsic, extrinsic or behavioral in nature. Understanding the type of factors involved in a fall can help inform interventions to reduce falls in patients.
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The aim of the study was to explore extrinsic and behavioral risks for falls in older adults with Parkinson’s disease (PD).
A new study conducted at the University of Turku, Finland, shows that patients with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder have an increased risk of Parkinson s disease later in life. The increased risk may be due to alterations in the brain s dopamine system caused by dopamine receptor antagonists or neurobiological effects of schizophrenia.
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If you are ever in Buffalo  go visit the Forrest Lawn Cemetery. In section F you find the grave of President Millard Fillmore. Millard was the 13th president from 1850-1853 an who has been universally celebrated as the worst president of all time.
Wikipedia, says of Fillmore, No President of the United States . has suffered as much ridicule as Millard Fillmore due to lacking in leadership
Harry Truman characterized Fillmore as. Â a weak, trivial thumb-twaddler who would do nothing to offend anyone .
and one of his biographer commented, On the central issues of the age his vision was myopic and his legacy is worse . in the end, Fillmore was always on the wrong side of the great moral and political issues Â
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Non-invasive imaging technique called 31-phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy used to measure mitochondrial function in patients with motor neuron disease (MND)
Evidence shows that mitochondria - often referred to as the cell s battery - are impaired in MND
This technique could be used to measure the effectiveness of future treatments for MND
Researchers from the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) have used a new imaging technique to measure the function of mitochondria in patients with motor neuron disease (MND).
The research, published today (13 January 2021) in the journal
Brain could provide new ways to assess the effectiveness of treatments currently in development for MND.
Medicinal plant-derived compound destroys brain-eating amoeba in lab studies
Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a deadly disease caused by the brain-eating amoeba
Naegleria fowleri, is becoming more common in some areas of the world, and it has no effective treatment. Now, researchers reporting in
ACS Chemical Neuroscience have found that a compound isolated from the leaves of a traditional medicinal plant,
Inula viscosa or false yellowhead, kills the amoebae by causing them to commit cell suicide in lab studies, which could lead to new treatments.
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PAM, characterized by headache, fever, vomiting, hallucinations and seizures, is almost always fatal within a couple of weeks of developing symptoms. Although the disease, which is usually contracted by swimming in contaminated freshwater, is rare, increasing cases have been reported recently in the U.S., the Philippines, southern Brazil and some Asian countries.