## Abstract Recent neuropathological and neuroimaging studies suggest the involvement of several temporal regions in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with visual hallucinations (VH). We examined 24 nondemented PD patients with VH, 21 PD patients without VH, and 21 healthy controls using a battery
A study of visual hallucinations in patients with Parkinson’s disease
✍ Scribed by Christine Klein; Detlef Kömpf; Ulrich Pulkowski; Andreas Moser; Peter Vieregge
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 35 KB
- Volume
- 244
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-5354
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