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Chronic bilateral electrical stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus for the treatment of advanced Parkinson's disease
Preliminary reports in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) showed that subthalamic nucleus (STN) stimulation was able to reverse parkinsoniam state. Since 1998 we evaluated the safety and the efficacy of S...
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The parkin gene and its phenotype
Mutations of the parkin gene on chromosome 6 cause autosomal recessive, early onset parkinsonism. This is the most frequent form of monogenic parkinsonism so far identified. The associated phenotypical spectrum ...
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A multicenter Italian randomised study on early treatment of Parkinson disease: comparison of 1-dopa, 1-deprenyl and dopaminoagonists. Study design and short term results
On the long term Parkinson Disease (PD) treatment is often complicated by the occurrence of motor fluctuations. To find out whether early treatment of PD with levodopa, dopaminoagonists or 1-deprenyl is associ...