Deep brain stimulation effect on freezin
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Murielle U. Ferraye; Bettina DebΓ»; Pierre Pollak
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Article
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2008
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The majority of patients with Parkinson's disease suffer from freezing of gait (FOG), which responds more or less to levodopa. Thalamic stimulation, mainly used in the treatment of tremor dominant Parkinson's disease is ineffective in FOG. GPi stimulation moderately improves FOG, but this effect may