What is the therapeutic mechanism of pedunculopontine nucleus stimulation in Parkinson's disease?
Pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an experimental treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD) which offers a fairly circumscribed benefit for gait freezing and perhaps balance impairment. The benefit on gait freezing is variable and typically incomplete, which may reflec...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2019-08-01
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Series: | Neurobiology of Disease |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996118301931 |