Understanding and treating freezing of gait in Parkinsonism, proposed working definition, and setting the stage

Movement Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2008, Pages

  Giladi, Nir ^a   Nieuwboer, Alice ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b University Hospitals Leuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; LEVODOPA;

ATTENTION; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; EDITORIAL; FREEZING OF GAIT; GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NOMENCLATURE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; WALKING INTERRUPTION;

GAIT; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 52649086393     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21927     Document Type: Editorial

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