PMID: 8585835Sep 1, 1995Paper

Neurobiology of parkinsonism. I. Neural substrates an neurochemistry of the basal ganglia

Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
S Ponzoni, N Garcia-Cairasco

Abstract

Movement disorders, in general, are characterized by a breakdown in the integrated coordination of posture and motion by multiple brain and muscular systems. In the expression of parkinsonism, in particular, critical and altered structures such as substantia nigra, appear to be related to the cortex-basal ganglia and thalamus-basal ganglia sub-circuits.

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