Balance and gait in the elderly: A contemporary review

MY Osoba, AK Rao, SK Agrawal… - Laryngoscope …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background The prevalence of balance and gait deficits increases with age and is
associated with the increased incidence of falls seen in the elderly population; these falls …

Functional vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia: mechanisms and consequences of cerebral autoregulatory dysfunction, endothelial …

P Toth, S Tarantini, A Csiszar… - American Journal of …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
Increasing evidence from epidemiological, clinical and experimental studies indicate that
age-related cerebromicrovascular dysfunction and microcirculatory damage play critical …

Explaining the unique nature of individual gait patterns with deep learning

F Horst, S Lapuschkin, W Samek, KR Müller… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning (ML) techniques such as (deep) artificial neural networks (DNN)
are solving very successfully a plethora of tasks and provide new predictive models for …

Immersive virtual reality during gait rehabilitation increases walking speed and motivation: a usability evaluation with healthy participants and patients with multiple …

C Winter, F Kern, D Gall, ME Latoschik, P Pauli… - … of neuroengineering and …, 2021 - Springer
Background The rehabilitation of gait disorders in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and
stroke is often based on conventional treadmill training. Virtual reality (VR)-based treadmill …

Cognitive contributions to gait and falls: evidence and implications

M Amboni, P Barone, JM Hausdorff - Movement disorders, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Dementia and gait impairments often coexist in older adults and patients with
neurodegenerative disease. Both conditions represent independent risk factors for falls. The …

Motoric cognitive risk syndrome: multicountry prevalence and dementia risk

J Verghese, C Annweiler, E Ayers, N Barzilai… - Neurology, 2014 - AAN Enterprises
Objectives: Our objective is to report prevalence of motoric cognitive risk syndrome (MCR), a
newly described predementia syndrome characterized by slow gait and cognitive …

Do spatiotemporal parameters and gait variability differ across the lifespan of healthy adults? A systematic review

N Herssens, E Verbecque, A Hallemans, L Vereeck… - Gait & posture, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Aging is often associated with changes in the musculoskeletal system,
peripheral and central nervous system. These age-related changes often result in mobility …

[PDF][PDF] Normal changes in gait and mobility problems in the elderly

M Cruz-Jimenez - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics, 2017 - 123library.org
BACKGROUND There are normal physiologic changes that occur as the body ages. These
changes affect the body, organs, and systems, and their functional decline may alter general …

Motoric cognitive risk syndrome and the risk of dementia

J Verghese, C Wang, RB Lipton… - Journals of Gerontology …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Background. Despite growing evidence of links between gait and cognition in aging,
cognitive risk assessments that incorporate motoric signs have not been examined. We …

Brain activity during walking: a systematic review

D Hamacher, F Herold, P Wiegel, D Hamacher… - Neuroscience & …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background This systematic review provides an overview of the literature deducing
information about brain activation during (1) imagined walking using MRI/fMRI or (2) during …