Parkinson's Symptoms/Festination

Forced hurrying of walking, talking or thought.

The following references are relevant:-

Devos et al (2007) Improvement of gait by chronic, high doses of methylphenidate in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease ^[1]

Hausdorff (2009) Gait dynamics in Parkinson’s disease: Common and distinct behavior among stride length, gait variability, and fractal-like scaling ^[2]

Hove et al (2012) Interactive Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation Reinstates Natural 1/f Timing in Gait of Parkinson's Patients ^[3]

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References

↑ Devos, D.; Krystkowiak, P.; Clement, F.; Dujardin, K.; Cpttencin, O.; Wauquier, N.; Ajebbar, K.; Thielmans, B.; Kroumova, M.; Duhamel, A.; Deste, A.; Border, R. and Defebvre, L. (2007) Full Text J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry. 78 (5) 470 – J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 78 (5) 470–475. Improvement of gait by chronic, high doses of methylphenidate in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2117830/
↑ Hausdorff, Jeffrey M. (2009) Full Text Chaos 19 (2) 026113 Gait dynamics in Parkinson’s disease: Common and distinct behavior among stride length, gait variability, and fractal-like scaling http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2719464/
↑ Hove, Michael J.; Suzuki, Kazuko; Uchitomi, Hirotaka; Orimo, Satoshi and Miyake. Yoshihiro (2012) Full Text PLoS One 9 (3) e32600 Interactive Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation Reinstates Natural 1/f Timing in Gait of Parkinson's Patients http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3292577/

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