CLINICAL AUTONOMIC RESEARCH 25(6) 367-371 2015年12月 [査読有り]
Purpose Cutaneous sympathetic pathophysiology in complex regional pain syndrome type 1 (CRPS-1) is not yet completely understood. To evaluate cutaneous sympathetic dysfunction in CRPS-1, we evaluated sympathetic sweat response (SSwR) and skin vaso...
Aims
Although subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) is effective in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease (PD), its physiological mechanisms remain unclear. Because STN-DBS is effective in patients with PD whose motor symptoms ...
Introduction. Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) showed reduced myocardial I-123-MIBG uptake, which may affect autonomic regulation. We investigated correlation between MIBC accumulation and cardiovascular autonomic function in PD. Methods. We...
Masato Asahina   Christopher J. Mathias   Akira Katagiri   David A. Low   Ekawat Vichayanrat   Yoshikatsu Fujinuma   Yoshitaka Yamanaka   Satoshi Kuwabara   
JOURNAL OF PARKINSONS DISEASE 4(3) 385-393 2014年 [査読有り]
Background: According to Braak staging of Parkinson's disease (PD), detection of autonomic dysfunction would help with early diagnosis of PD.
Objective: To determine whether the autonomic nervous system is involved in the early stage of PD, we eva...
PARKINSONISM & RELATED DISORDERS 19(5) 560-562 2013年5月 [査読有り]
Aim: A previous study on a small number of patients showed that low skin temperature of the hands, the so called "cold hands sign", may be useful for distinguishing multiple system atrophy (MSA) from Parkinson's disease (PD). We have further inves...