Authors: Michael Strupp
Publish Date: 2011/02/01
Volume: 258, Issue: 2, Pages: 340-342
Abstract
This month’s Journal Club will focus on three recently published articles which deepen our knowledge in three fields of Parkinson’s disease PD The first article deals with the understanding of rest and postural tremors in PD The authors found evidence that the excitability of the cerebellothalamocortical pathway is decreased in PD and seems to be involved in the generation or transmission of postural tremor This article is accompanied by quite a critical editorial which points out that there is still room for further discoveries The second article deals with the effects of subthalamic stimulation on speech in consecutive patients with PD It shows that depending on the localisation of the electrodes subthalamic stimulation can cause a significant deterioration of speech or improve loudness of speech As in the study mentioned above on tremor the cerebellothalamic tract seems also to be involved in speech deterioration The third article shows that amantadine use isAs mentioned in previous Journal Clubs the spelling of “Parkinson disease” or “Parkinson’s disease” is not unified Even in the same issue of the same journal two different spellings were used in the abovementioned editorial by Hallett and Deuschl “Parkinson’s disease” was used whereas in the original article “Parkinson disease” was used Perhaps it is time that the people who work in this field reach a consensus on how to spell this common disorder
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