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Impaired self-awareness of motor deficits in Parkinson's disease: association with motor asymmetry and motor phenotypes.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 15 Sept 2012
Maier Franziska, Prigatano George P, Kalbe Elke, Barbe Michael T, Eggers Carsten, Lewis Catharine J, Burns Richard S, Morrone-Strupinsky Jeannine, Moguel-Cobos Guillermo, Fink Gereon R, Timmermann Lars
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BACKGROUND: This study investigated impaired self-awareness of motor deficits in nondemented, nondepressed Parkinson's disease (PD) patients during a defined clinical on state. METHODS: Twenty-eight PD patients were examined. Patients' self-ratings and experts' ratings of patients' motor performance were compared. Patient-examiner discrepancies and level of impairment determined severity of impaired...
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