Taking sides: Is handedness involved in motor asymmetry of Parkinson's disease?

Movement Disorders

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 171-173

  Melamed, Eldad ^a   Poewe, Werner ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXIDOPAMINE;

DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS;

FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 84856969651     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.24048     Document Type: Editorial

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