Could Sensory Mechanisms Be a Core Factor That Underlies Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Ehgoetz Martens, Kaylena A ^a,b   Pieruccini Faria, Frederico ^b   Almeida, Quincy J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATALEPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; FEMALE; FREEZING OF GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DARKNESS; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ONTARIO; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 84877255402     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062602     Document Type: Article

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