## Abstract ## Purpose To estimate the levels of basal ganglia iron levels in Parkinson's disease (PD) using the PRIME MR sequence at 3.0 Tesla, in relation to patients' motor symptom severity. ## Materials and Methods Seventy patients with PD and 10 healthy controls underwent assessment of move
Modulation of thalamocortical relay by basal ganglia in Parkinson’s disease and dystonia
✍ Scribed by Yixin Guo; Choongseok Park; Min Rong; Robert M Worth; Leonid L Rubchinsky
- Book ID
- 104492806
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 141 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1471-2202
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