Cognitive dysfunction and dementia in Parkinson's disease

JLW Bosboom, D Stoffers, EC Wolters - Journal of neural transmission, 2004 - Springer
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a slowly progressive neurodegenerative disorder mainly
characterized by degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra and the ventral …

Parkinson's disease: premotor clinico-pathological correlations

EC Wolters, H Braak - Parkinson's Disease and Related Disorders, 2006 - Springer
Parkinsonism is a clinical syndrome characterized by bradykinesia, hypo-/akinesia, muscular
rigidity, and resting tremor, mainly caused by Parkinson’s disease (PD). Progressive loss of …

Non-motor extranigral signs and symptoms in Parkinson's disease

EC Wolters - Parkinsonism & related disorders, 2009 - Elsevier
Clinical symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD) comprise both motor and non-motor symptoms.
In this disease, synucleinopathic-induced, nigral dopamine deficiency-related dysfunction …

Atrophy of medial temporal lobes on MRI in" probable" Alzheimer's disease and normal ageing: diagnostic value and neuropsychological correlates.

…, M Kuiper, M Steinling, EC Wolters… - Journal of Neurology …, 1992 - jnnp.bmj.com
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has shown a great reduction in medial temporal lobe
and hippocampal volume of patients with Alzheimer's disease as compared to controls. …

Idiopathic hyposmia as a preclinical sign of Parkinson's disease

…, J Booij, BLF van Eck‐Smit, EC Wolters… - Annals of Neurology …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Olfactory dysfunction is an early and common symptom in Parkinson's disease (PD). In an
effort to determine whether otherwise unexplained (idiopathic) olfactory dysfunction is …

X-linked borderline mental retardation with prominent behavioral disturbance: phenotype, genetic localization, and evidence for disturbed monoamine metabolism.

…, NG Abeling, AH Van Gennip, EC Wolters… - American journal of …, 1993 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We have identified a large Dutch kindred with a new form of X-linked nondysmorphic mild
mental retardation. All affected males in this family show very characteristic abnormal behavior…

[123I] FP-CIT SPECT shows a pronounced decline of striatal dopamine transporter labelling in early and advanced Parkinson's disease.

…, JC Stoof, AG Janssen, EC Wolters… - Journal of Neurology …, 1997 - jnnp.bmj.com
OBJECTIVES: The main neuropathological feature in Parkinson's disease is a severe
degeneration of the dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra resulting in a loss of dopamine (…

Efficacy of a physical therapy program in patients with Parkinson's disease: a randomized controlled trial

T Ellis, CJ De Goede, RG Feldman, EC Wolters… - Archives of physical …, 2005 - Elsevier
Ellis T, de Goede CJ, Feldman RG, Wolters EC, Kwakkel G, Wagenaar RC. Efficacy of a
physical therapy program in patients with Parkinson’s disease: a randomized controlled trial. …

Histopathologic correlates of white matter changes on MRI in Alzheimer's disease and normal aging

P Scheltens, F Barkhof, D Leys, EC Wolters, R Ravid… - Neurology, 1995 - AAN Enterprises
Article abstract—We investigated the histopathologic correlates of white matter changes in
Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients (n = 6) and controls (n = 9) using postmortem MRT. White …

Subclinical dopaminergic dysfunction in asymptomatic Parkinson's disease patients' relatives with a decreased sense of smell

…, R Hijman, JC Stoof, EC Wolters - Annals of Neurology …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
By the time a clinical diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD) is made, a significant loss of
dopaminergic neurons has already occurred. Identifying patients in the period between the …