Stereotactic posteroventral pallidotomy can improve motor performance in Parkinson's disease. Interruption of inhibitory pallidal projections to ventrolateral thalamus, components of a cortical-basal ganglia motor loop allows for this clinical benefit. We hypothesized that pallidotomy would lead to
fMRI study of motor cortex activity modulation in early Parkinson's disease
β Scribed by Marta Moraschi; Giovanni Giulietti; Federico Giove; Manuela Guardati; Girolamo Garreffa; Nicola Modugno; Claudio Colonnese; Bruno Maraviglia
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 484 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0730-725X
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