The performance on learning tasks of patients in the early stages of Parkinson's disease.

It is known that in animals learning is disrupted by caudate lesions; but there has been no agreement about whether pathology in the basal ganglia causes a similar impairment in man. Nineteen patients in the early stages of Parkinson's disease were tested on two associative learning tasks and o...

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Main Authors: Canavan, A, Passingham, R, Marsden, C, Quinn, N, Wyke, M, Polkey, C
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 1989