5TH International Congress on Technology - Engineering & Science - Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia (2018-02-01)

Effect Of Sensory Electrical Stimulation On Tremor: Comparison Of Parkinsonian And Swedd Tremor

Introduction: Some (4-15 %) of patients clinically diagnosed as early PD do not have a diagnostic support from functional imaging (e.g. SPECT) of striatal dopaminergic system, and this phenomenon was named ‘‘Scans Without Evidence of Dopaminergic Deficiency’’ (SWEDD) [1]. Tremor in Patients with PD was shown to be reduced by sensory electrical stimulation (SES) [2]. Since the pathological genesis of PD and SWEDD are regarded to be different [3], we hypothesized that the effect of sensory electrical stimulation on tremor may be different in PD and SWEDD. Therefore, we aimed to compare the tremor response to SES in two patient groups. Acknowledgement This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education and science. (2017R1A2B2010062, 2015M3A9D7067390).
Jae-Hoon Heo, Hyeong-Min Jeon, Gwang-Moon Eom