## Abstract ## Objective Depression is a common neuropsychiatric syndrome in Parkinson's disease (PD), and may be etiologically related to the neurochemical changes accompanying this disease. It is still unclear whether the disturbances of neurotransmitter activities lead to a specific profile of
Improvement of symptoms following epileptic convulsion in a patient with Parkinson's disease
✍ Scribed by Atsushi Ishikawa; Kunihiko Makino; Jiro Idezuka; Takeo Kuwabara
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 36 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-3185
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