Blind men and blinking elephants

Neurology

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1732-1733

  Evinger, Craig ^a,b   Perlmutter, Joel S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR;

BASAL GANGLION; BLEPHAROSPASM; BLINKING; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORNEA; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRY EYE; DYSTONIA; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTERNEURON; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TEAR FILM; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

EID: 0038792297     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000067493.91199.E8     Document Type: Editorial

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