Trial reportMovement disorders clinical practice2024
Lateralized Subthalamic Stimulation for Axial Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease: Exploratory Outcomes and Open-Label Extension.
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- One Side or Two? A Systematic Review of Deep Brain Stimulation Approaches in Movement Disorders.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2025Pooled it
- A notable case of primary progressive freezing of gait associated with parietal cortical atrophy.BMC neurology · 2026Article
- Differential Effects of Levodopa and Stimulation on Post-Surgery Freezing of Gait in Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation Parkinson's Disease Patients: A Clinical and Kinematic Analysis.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundA randomized trial suggested that reducing left-sided subthalamic stimulation amplitude could improve axial dysfunction.
objectivesTo explore open-label tolerability and associations between trial outcomes and asymmetry data.
methodsWe collected adverse events in trial participants treated with open-label lateralized settings for ≥3 months. We explored associations between trial outcomes, location of stimulation and motor asymmetry.
results14/17 participants tolerated unilateral amplitude reduction (left-sided = 10, right-sided = 4). Two hundred eighty-four left-sided and 1113 right-sided stimulated voxels were associated with faster gait velocity, 81 left-sided and 22 right-sided stimulated voxels were associated with slower gait velocity. Amplitude reduction contralateral to shorter step length was associated with 2.4-point reduction in axial MDS-UPDRS. Reduction contralateral to longer step length was associated with 10-point increase in MDS-UPDRS.
conclusionsLeft-sided amplitude reduction is potentially more tolerable than right-sided amplitude reduction. Right-sided more than left-sided stimulation could be associated with faster gait velocity. Shortened step length might reflect contralateral overstimulation.
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