We have read with interest the study by Santangelo et al., 1 reporting the role of vascular pathology in the neuropsychological profile of parkinsonian patients. The authors evaluated whether the brain's vascular lesion load is associated with neuropsychological variables. They compared the neuropsy
Reduced brain glutamate in patients with Parkinson's disease
β Scribed by H. Randall Griffith; Ozioma C. Okonkwo; Timothy O'Brien; Jan A. den Hollander
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 134 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0952-3480
- DOI
- 10.1002/nbm.1203
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