## Abstract Despite all recent advances in symptomatic therapy Parkinson's disease (PD) continues to be a relentlessly progressive neurodegenerative disorder. Therefore therapies that will slow or hold disease progression are a major medical unmet need in PD. Clinical measures of disease progressio
Photoglottographic measures in parkinson's disease
β Scribed by Emily Lin; Jack Jiang; Stephen Hone; David G. Hanson
- Book ID
- 117595496
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 895 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0892-1997
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