ReviewJournal of neurology2025
Could adaptive deep brain stimulation treat freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease?
Review in Journal of neurology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Deep brain stimulation for freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease: An updated systematic review, meta-analysis, and a single-center clinical experience.Neurosurgical review · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of wearable devices on gait, balance, and motor function in people with Parkinson's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- The experience and perception of wearable devices in Parkinson's disease patients: a systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies.Journal of neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Adaptive versus conventional deep brain stimulation for bradykinesia in Parkinson's disease: a comparative effectiveness analysis.Acta neurologica Belgica · 2026Review
- Activity-dependent adaptive deep brain stimulation improves gait in Parkinson's disease.Nature medicine · 2026Article
- Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease: Navigating the Roadblocks to Clinical Implementation.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2026Review
- Aberrant Beta-Band Network Alteration Preceding Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2026Article
- Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease: A Scoping Review on the Path Towards Real-Time Therapies.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- What is new in Freezing of Gait?Journal of neurology · 2026Review
- Chronic adaptive deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease: ADAPT-START findings and programming principles.NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2026Article
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Abstract
Next-generation neurostimulators capable of running closed-loop adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS) are about to enter the clinical landscape for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Already promising results using aDBS have been achieved for symptoms such as bradykinesia, rigidity and motor fluctuations. However, the heterogeneity of freezing of gait (FoG) with its wide range of clinical presentations and its exacerbation with cognitive and emotional load make it more difficult to predict and treat. Currently, a successful aDBS strategy to ameliorate FoG lacks a robust oscillatory biomarker. Furthermore, the technical implementation of suppressing an upcoming FoG episode in real-time represents a significant technical challenge. This review describes the neurophysiological signals underpinning FoG and explains how aDBS is currently being implemented. Furthermore, we offer a discussion addressing both theoretical and practical areas that will need to be resolved if we are going to be able to unlock the full potential of aDBS to treat FoG.
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