Nonmotor symptoms have recently become a focus of renewed clinical interest and research in Parkinson's disease (PD). Autonomic and cognitive dysfunction are among the most prevalent of these nonmotor aspects of the disease. Although exact clinico-pathological correlations have not been established,
Olfactory dysfunction and cardiovascular dysautonomia in Parkinson’s disease
✍ Scribed by Hisayoshi Oka; Chizuko Toyoda; Makiko Yogo; Soichiro Mochio
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 264 KB
- Volume
- 257
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-5354
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