This report is the result of a research to press freedom in the European Union. In recent years, several EU-countries have experienced a dramatic fall in the ratings on press freedom. On the other side, EU-member Finland is the highest rated country in the world when it comes to press freedom. The aim …

Patients who have suffered a stroke need to (re)learn motor skills in order to live independently. Cognitive deficits can make the understanding of movement instructions during rehabilitation very tough. In the sport domain, analogy learning has been shown to facilitate motor learning without the need …

The Kennedy Axis V is a routine outcome measurement instrument which can assist the assessment of the short-term risk for violence and other adverse patient outcomes. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the interrater reliability and clinical utility of the instrument when used by mental health …

Background: Cervical dystonia is characterized by involuntary muscle contractions of the neck and abnormal head positions that affect daily life activities and social life of patients. Patients are usually treated with botulinum toxin injections into affected neck muscles to relief pain and improve control …

In hospice Kuria, te Amsterdam, wordt palliatieve zorg aangeboden. Voor het meten van angst en depressie wordt gebruik gemaakt van de Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), ontworpen door Zigmond & Snaith (1983). Op basis van de hoge HADS-scores in hospice Kuria bleek dat veel bewoners angstig …

To report on the development and psychometric evaluation of the Radboud Oral Motor Inventory for Parkinsons Disease (ROMP), a newly developed patient-rated assessment of speech, swallowing, and saliva control in patients with Parkinsons disease (PD). To evaluate reproducibility, 60 patients completed …

In samenwerking met het Paramedisch Centrum Sittard-zuid is de volgende vraagstelling in het afstudeerproject onderzocht: Wat is de invloed van de DVD “nekklachten de baas”, vergeleken met huiswerkoefeningen op papier, in de eerste zes weken na het behandeltraject bij patiënten met aspecifieke nekklachten …

Zusammenfassung Bei Mann-zu-Frau (MzF) Transsexuellen wird die Stimme entgegen ihrem gefühlten Geschlecht als männlich wahrgenommen. Es besteht die Möglichkeit durch stimmtherapeutische und/oder phonochirurgische Maßnahmen eine Stimme weiblicher klingen zu lassen, dies führt jedoch nicht immer zu einem …

Drooling is an incapacitating feature of Parkinsons disease. Better pathophysiological insights are needed to improve treatment. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that the cause of drooling is multifactorial. We examined 15 patients with Parkinsons disease with distinct diurnal saliva loss ("droolers") …