Does pattern electroretinogram spatial tuning alteration in Parkinson's disease depend on motor disturbances or retinal dopaminergic loss?

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 374-382

  Peppe, A ^a   Stanzione, P ^a   Pierantozzi, M ^a   Semprini, R ^a   Bassi, A ^a   Santilli, A M ^a   Formisano, R ^a   Piccolino, M ^a   Bernardi, G ^a  

^a RCCS Clinica S Lucia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Extrapyramidal symptoms; Parkinson's disease; PERG; Retina

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CELL LOSS; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NERVE CELL;

ADULT; ANTIPARKINSON AGENTS; BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; BRAIN INJURIES; DOPAMINE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEVODOPA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION, MONOCULAR;

EID: 0032055614     PISSN: 00134694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-4694(97)00075-8     Document Type: Article

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