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PubMed1991

Electroconvulsive therapy in Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders.

Early case reports note marked improvements in the signs of Parkinson's disease (PD) in several patients with coexisting psychiatric disorders after treatment with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Studies since 1959 reveal improvement of parkinsonism in over half of PD patients receiving ECT, regardless of the presence or absence of psychiatric comorbidity. Drug-induced parkinsonism, tardive dystonia, and tardive dyskinesia have also been shown to improve with ECT administration; tic syndromes have achieved mixed results. In animals, ECT enhances dopamine-mediated effects and increases GABA concentrations in the CNS. Optimal parameters relevant to the antiparkinsonism effects of ECT require further study.

Depressive Disorder↗
PubMed1985

[Rehabilitation of movement disorders using functional biocontrol approaches].

Methods of functional biocontrol (FBC) were used for treating motor disorders in different groups of patients: with DCP and post-stroke hemipareses (n-103). The treatment efficacy was assessed by a specially elaborated 5-point scale of clinical efficacy and also electromyographically. It was found that FBC improved the function of the affected muscles with a readjustment of the mechanisms of their regulation while following the conventional methods of treatment without FBC, the improvement of motor possibilities took place at the expense of one or another mechanism of compensation: active involvement in the motor act of antagonistic or synergistic muscles. A conclusion is drawn as to the clinical efficacy of FBC employment in various motor disturbances of the CNS. Examples of the use of FBC under outpatient conditions are presented.

Adolescent↗