Lesioning the subthalamic nucleus in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
Ever since it was demonstrated about twenty years ago by two independent groups (Aziz et al. and Bergman et al.) that the cardinal clinical features of MPTP-induced Parkinson's disease (PD) in non-human primate models can be alleviated by lesions of the subthalamic nucleus (STN), this structure...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2001
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