Giovanni Fabbrini

TL;DR: There is definitive evidence that STDT abnormalities are a generalised feature of patients with primary focal dystonias and are a valid tool for screening subclinical sensory abnormalities, regardless of the distribution and severity of motor symptoms.

TL;DR: The results support the view that the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease may relate exclusively to the D-2 subclass of dopamine receptors.

TL;DR: This is one of the most extensive candidate gene studies performed in PD and the first time that some of these loci have been studied in multiple system atrophy and progressive supranuclear palsy and found no role for these polymorphisms in the etiology of PD, ALS, multipleSystem atrophy, progressive suPRan nuclear palsy, or AD.

TL;DR: The Italian version of the MDS-UPDRS reaches the criterion to be designated as an Official Translation and is now available for use and this protocol will serve as outline for further validation of this in multiple languages.

TL;DR: In PD patients the longer pauses between the closing and opening phase in comparison to normal subjects, suggest bradykinesia of voluntary blinking and PD patients also display kinematic abnormalities of spontaneous blinking and changes in the excitability of the closing phase of reflex blinking.