Parkinson's Disease, Huntington's Diseases, and other Movement Disorders

Articles

Claire Toffano-Nioche, Dominique Beroule and Jean-Pol Tassin (1998). A functional model of some Parkinson's Disease symptoms using a Guided Propagation Network Artificial Intelligence in Medicine., 14, 237-258. Contreras, V. J. L., Grossberg, S., Bullock, D. (1997). A neural model of cerebellar learning for arm movement control: cortico-spino-cerebellar dynamics.. Learn Mem., 3, 475-502.

J. Contreras-Vidal, H. Teulings and G. Stelmach (1996). A Neural Network Model of Movement Production in Parkinson's Disease and Huntington's Disease. In J. Reggia, E. Ruppin, & R. Berndt (Eds.), Neural Modeling of Brain and Cognitive Disorders, World Scientific.

Contreras-Vidal, J. L., Teulings, H., Stelmach, G. E. (1995). Micrographia in Parkinson's disease. Neuroreport: An International Journal for the Rapid Communication of Research in Neuroscience, 6(15), 2089-2092.

Contreras-Vidal, J. L. (1999). The gating functions of the basal ganglia in movement control. In J.A. Reggia, E. Ruppin, D.L. Glanzman (Eds.) Disorders of Brain, Behavior, and Cognition: The Neurocomputational Perspective . (pp. 261-276). New York: Elsevier.

Cutsuridis V, Perantonis S (2005, in press): A neural network model of Parkinson's disease bradykinesia. Neural Networks.

Finkel LH (2000): Neuroengineering models of brain disease. Annu Rev Biomed Eng 2:577-606. Review

Frank, M.J. (2005). Dynamic dopamine modulation in the basal ganglia: A neurocomputational account of cognitive deficits in medicated and non-medicated Parkinsonism. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 51-72. pdf

Grossberg, S. (1984a). Some normal and abnormal behavioral syndromes due to transmitter gating of opponent processes.
Biological Psychiatry, 19, 1075-1118.

Grossberg, S. (1984b). Some psychological correlates of a developmental, cognitive, and motivational theory. Annals of the
New York Academy of Sciences, 425, 58-142.

Jobe T, Vimal R, Kovilparambil A, Port J, Gaviria M. (1994). A theory of cooperativity modulation in neural networks as an important parameter of CNS catecholamine function and induction of psychopathology. Neurological Research, 16(5),330-41.

Kotter, R. (1999). Motor fluctuations in Parkinson's disease: a postsynaptic mechanism derived from a striatal model. In J.A. Reggia, E. Ruppin, D.L. Glanzman (Eds.) Disorders of Brain, Behavior, and Cognition: The Neurocomputational Perspective . (pp. 277-288). New York: Elsevier.

Mahurin, R. K. (1998). Neural network modeling of basal ganglia function in Parkinson's disease and related disorders. In R. W. Parks, D. S. Levine, & D. L. Long (Eds.) Fundamentals of neural network modeling: Neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience. (pp. 331-355). The Mit Press, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Watters, P.A. & Patel, M. (1998). Modelling semantic processing errors dopaminergic disorders using a competitive neural network. Technical Report C/TR-9801, Department of Computing, Macquarie University NSW. Adobe Acrobat format

Watters, P.A. (1998). Cognitive Theory and Neural Model: the Role of Local Representations. Psycoloquy: 9(20) Connectionist Explanation (17). Link

Watters, P.A. & Patel, M. (1999). Semantic processing deficits in Parkinson's Disease: Degraded representation or defective retrieval? Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 24, 322-332.

Watters, P.A. & Patel, M. (1999). A neural network model of semantic processing errors in Parkinson's Disease. Neural Processing Letters, 9, 189-199.

Relevant Web Sites

Paul Watters