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Somatosensory processing in a German family with PINK1 mutations: its potential role in Parkinson disease.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 1 May 2009
Gierthmühlen J, Lienau F, Maag R, Hagenah J M, Deuschl G, Fritzer E, Klein C, Baron R, Helmchen C
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: It is unclear whether sensory symptoms in Parkinson disease (PD) are of primary or of secondary origin attributable to motor symptoms such as rigidity and bradykinesia. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to elucidate whether sensory abnormalities are present and may precede motor symptoms in familial parkinsonism by characterizing sensory function in symptomatic and asymptomatic PINK1 mutation...
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