Uncertainty, misunderstanding and the pedunculopontine nucleus: Response to letter by Mazzone et al.

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 154, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 839-841

  Aviles Olmos, Iciar ^a   Foltynie, Thomas ^a   Panicker, Jalesh ^b   Cowie, Dorothy ^c   Limousin, Patricia ^a   Hariz, Marwan ^a   Fowler, Clare J ^b   Zrinzo, Ludvic ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; ELECTRODE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; ITALY; LETTER; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MICTURITION; NERVE STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 84862689439     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-012-1315-3     Document Type: Letter

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