The wearing-off phenomenon and the use of questionnaires to facilitate its recognition in Parkinson’s disease
✍ Scribed by Mark Stacy
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 226 KB
- Volume
- 117
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1435-1463
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