Subthalamic deep brain stimulation improves smooth pursuit and saccade performance in patients with Parkinson’s disease

BACKGROUND: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the subthalamic nucleus (STN) significantly reduces symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD) such as bradykinesia, tremor and rigidity. It also reduces the need for anti-PD medication, and thereby potential side-effects of (L)-Dopa. Although DBS in the STN is...

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Autores principales: Nilsson, Maria H, Patel, Mitesh, Rehncrona, Stig, Magnusson, Måns, Fransson, Per-Anders
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3621588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23551890
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-0003-10-33

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