Is cerebral palsy a neurological disease?Neurological and Psychiatric Illnesses:Several illnesses and diseases sometimes are very difficult to be clustered as neurological or psychiatric types. However, many studies carried out to find the differences between these two conditions have made it a little ...
The term cerebral palsy (CP), is used for a great number of clinical neurological syndromes. The syndromes are characterized by having a common cause, motor defects. It is important, because they can cause a brain damage by presenting motor defects and some associated deficiencies, such as ...
BackgroundCerebral palsy is a nosological entity in which genetic diseases and other neurodevelopmental disorders are being included, which, despite presenting motor dysfunction, do not meet the criteria that define cerebral palsy as such. The aim of this study was to verify whether there are ...
Dysfunction of the lenticular nucleus is thought to contribute to neurological symptoms in Wilson’s disease (WD). However, very little is known about whether and how the lenticular nucleus influences dystonia by interacting with the cerebral cortex and cerebellum. To solve this problem, we recruited...
Wearable inertial devices have recently been used to evaluate spatiotemporal parameters of gait in daily life situations. Given the heterogeneity of gait patterns in children with cerebral palsy (CP), the sensor placement and analysis algorithm may influence the validity of the results. This study ai...