l-Dopa induces under-damped visually guided motor responses in Parkinson’s disease
✍ Scribed by Wing-Lok Au; Ni Lei; Meeko M. K. Oishi; Martin J. McKeown
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 290 KB
- Volume
- 202
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0014-4819
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