The outbreak of a neurological disorder was first discovered as a new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Wuhan, China. The infection spread rapidly in China and throughout the world, including Malaysia. Malaysia recorded its initial case on 25 January 2020 w...
2 March 2022
Background: Time spent in 24-h movement behaviors is important to health and wellbeing in childhood, but levels of these behaviors in children with chronic disease are unknown. Methods: A case-control-study included 80 children with chronic disease;...
Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is a rapidly spreading viral disease of cattle that threatens livestock productivity and agricultural trade across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Despite effective vaccines being available, evidence-based guidance on allo...
Neurofeedback (NF) is a promising intervention for improvements in motor performance in Parkinson’s disease. This NF pilot study in healthy participants aimed to achieve the following: (1) determine participants’ ability to bi-directional...
Slowness of movement initiation is a cardinal motor feature of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and is not fully reverted by current dopaminergic treatments. This trouble could be due to the dysfunction of executive processes and, in particular, of inh...
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is endemic in Iran and associated with a large impact on the livestock industry. Livestock mobility is recognized as one of the most important risk factors for FMD and other infectious livestock diseases’ introducti...
Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) can be transmitted via contact with affected individuals and social distancing is widely practiced as a public preventive measure to contain the disease. Social distancing implementation includes maintaining at least...
Malaysia has enforced several phases of Movement Control Order (MCO) as a quarantine period since 18 March 2020 with the intended purpose of containing the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak. The quarantine has affected people’s daily live...
This exploratory, single-session, repeated-measures study characterized human and equine trunk muscle activity and human–horse EMG covariation during physical therapy utilizing equine movement in individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD)....
Zoning is crucial for controlling animal infectious diseases and movement plays a major role in disease transmission. However, movement-based zoning has received little research attention. This study aimed to identify biosecurity zones divided by adm...
Background and objectives: Low back pain is one of the most common health problems. In 85% of cases, it is not possible to identify a specific cause, and it is therefore called Non-Specific Low Back Pain (NSLBP). Among the various attempted classific...
Background: Movement sonification has been recently introduced into the field of neuromotor rehabilitation alongside Neurologic Music Therapy and music-based interventions. This study introduces the use of musical auditory cues encompassing the melod...
17 March 2019
How a disease is transmitted affects our ability to determine R0, the average number of new cases caused by an infectious host at the onset of an epidemic. R0 becomes progressively more difficult to compute as transmission varies from directly transm...
Species in the Ceratocystis manginecans complex are important fungal pathogens of plantation trees globally. The most important hosts include species of Eucalyptus, Acacia, Mangifera, and Punica. Despite their relevance and widespread occurrence, lit...
Postural instability (PI) in Parkinson’s disease (PD) exposes patients to an increased risk of falls (RF). While dopaminergic therapy and deep brain stimulation (DBS) improve motor performance in advanced PD patients, their effects on PI and RF...
Short-term animal movements play an integral role in the transmission and control of zoonotic infections such as brucellosis, in communal farming zones where animal movements are highly uncontrolled. Such movements need to be incorporated in models t...
18 October 2021
Bimanual coordination control requires task-specific control of the spatial and temporal characteristics of the coupling of both upper limbs. The present study examined the effects of external feedback (i.e., auditory signal) on bimanual coordination...
1 January 2006
Although a wide range of diagnostic tools have been used to assess CNS involvement in autoimmune disease, no single technique has proven to be reliable. Patients with these diseases often underwent detailed neurocognitive test batteries which are ext...
Livestock movements create complex dynamic interactions among premises that can be represented, interpreted, and used for epidemiological purposes. These movements are a very important part of the production chain but may also contribute to the sprea...
The paper focuses on the design of an intelligent interface that compensates for the incapacity of a person with Parkinson’s disease to drive a wheelchair. The fractional order model that defines a person with Parkinson’s disease is inves...
Background and Objectives: One form of treatment for degenerative temporomandibular joint diseases such as osteoarthritis, rheumatic arthritis, TMJ ankylosis, and condylar resorption is total joint replacement. The aim of this study was to examine th...
1 January 2010
Alien hand syndrome (AHS) is a neurological disorder in which movements are performed without awareness or conscious will. Phenomena like awareness or consciousness are still poorly studied in physiology and have only become a crucial topic in neuros...
The brainstem plays a pivotal role in the generation and control of eye movements—including saccades, smooth pursuit, the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR), vergence, and gaze holding. Beyond its vital physiological functions, it is also essential...
Background: Lee Silverman Voice Treatment-BIG (LB) was developed for Parkinson’s disease patients to improve patients’ movement amplitude and accuracy through large movements and enhance movements through self-awareness and recalibration....
We aimed to compare the effectiveness of some different acupuncture modalities on motor function using the unified Parkinson disease rating scale (UPDRS)-III scores of idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (PD) via pairwise and network meta-analyses (NMA) o...
Ticks are important vectors of an array of viral, bacterial and protozoan pathogens resulting in a wide range of animal and human diseases. There is limited information in the literature about tick species in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) c...
Sensorimotor integration is an essential function for both motor control and learning. Over recent decades, a growing body of evidence has emerged in support of the role of altered sensorimotor integration in the pathophysiology of various neurologic...
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an important infectious viral disease of domestic small ruminants that threatens the food security and sustainable livelihood of farmers across Middle East, Africa, and Asia. The objective of this research is to an...
Background: Fine and gross motor tasks are usually used to evaluate behavioral dysfunctions and can be applied to diseases of the central nervous system, such as fibromyalgia (FM). Non-linear measures have allowed for deeper motor control analysis, f...
Despite the importance of cognitive function in multiple sclerosis, it is poorly represented in the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS), the commonly used clinical measure to assess disability, suggesting that an analysis of eye movement, which i...
Background: Anti-IgLON5 disease is a rare autoimmune disease of the central nervous system. It typically manifests as a chronic condition, characterized by cognitive impairments, movement disorders, and sleep disorders. The mechanisms underlying move...
Mitochondrial dynamics encompass mitochondrial fusion, fission, and movement. Mitochondrial fission and fusion are seemingly ubiquitous, whereas mitochondrial movement is especially important for organelle transport through neuronal axons. Here, we r...
Bayesian space–time regression models are helpful tools to describe and predict the distribution of infectious disease outbreaks and to delineate high-risk areas for disease control. In these models, structured and unstructured spatial and temp...
African swine fever (ASF) is currently the most threatening disease for domestic and wild pigs worldwide. Wild boar has been the main affected species in all EU countries except for Romania, where most notifications occur in domestic pigs. The spread...
Wearable sensor data is relatively easily collected and provides direct measurements of movement that can be used to develop useful behavioral biomarkers. Sensitive and specific behavioral biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases are critical to sup...
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease which involves the malfunction and death of vital nerve cells in the brain, called neurons, which produce dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that communicates with the area of the brain r...
This article presents a deterministic model describing the joint dynamics of canine and human rabies in a cross-border context. This model explicitly integrates dog mobility between two neighboring countries and allows us to assess the impact of thes...
7 January 2022
Dance therapy can improve motor skills, balance, posture, and gait in people diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and healthy older adults (OA). It is not clear how specific movement patterns during dance promote these benefits. The purpose...
Objectives: The prevalence of elbow joint arthritis in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) assessed by ultrasound has not yet been investigated. Methods: We investigated 102 patients with RA and 50 patients without rheumatological disease. Both elbow joints we...
The paper shows how a state controlled religious institution used religion, fear, trauma, insecurity, grievances, and conspiracy theories to dehumanise a religious community, and presented it as an existential threat to the nation, the global communi...
12 March 2023
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a chronic, neurodegenerative movement disorder, whose symptoms have a negative impact on quality of life and functionality. Although its main treatment is pharmacological, non-pharmacological aids such as the dynamic...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects the neural, behavioral, and physiological systems of the brain. This disease is also known as tremor. The common symptoms of this disease are a slowness of movement known as &...
Considering that people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) experience challenges in the control of both balance and eye movements, this study investigated the effects of saccadic eye movements on body sway in people with PD in two bases of support p...
Both non-rapid eye movements and rapid eye movements sleep facilitate the strengthening of newly encoded memory traces, and dream content reflects this process. Numerous studies evaluated the impact of diseases on dream content, with particular refer...
Artificially intelligent advances such as tech gloves allow handicapped wearers to handle daily matters as normal. A wearable hand-rehabilitation system, i.e., a robotic arm, is engineered with controlled programming to control a disabled hand with f...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a chronic movement disorder that produces a variety of characteristic movement abnormalities. The ubiquity of wrist-worn accelerometry suggests a possible sensor modality for early detection of PD symptoms and subsequent t...
This study aims to explore the effects of healthy aging and Parkinson’s disease on speech motor performance. One area of speech production which requires fine speech motor control is prominence marking. Therefore, strategies of prominence marki...
20 April 2023
Background: The US Center for Disease Control estimates that only 24% of American elementary-aged children participate in the recommended 60 min of daily physical activity. As activity levels decline, elementary schools should consider increasing mov...
Background/Objectives: Osgood–Schlatter disease (OSD) is a common overuse condition in adolescents characterized by increased stiffness of the rectus femoris muscle, which contributes to pain and functional limitations around the knee. We inves...
Eye-movement analysis has grown exponentially in recent decades. The reason is that abnormalities in oculomotor movements are usually symptoms of injuries in the nervous system. This paper presents a novel regulated solution named OSCANN. OSCANN aims...
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