## Abstract Patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease suffer not only from classic motor symptoms, but from deficits in cognitive function, primarily those subserved by the prefrontal cortex as well. The aim of the current study was to investigate the modulatory effects of dopaminergic therapy o
Lateral leg raising in patients with Parkinson's disease: Influence of equilibrium constraint
✍ Scribed by Ida Tonolli; Roselyne Aurenty; Robert George Lee; François Viallet; Jean Massion
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 187 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-3185
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