| Literature DB >> 8580447 |
J L Contreras-Vidal1, H L Teulings, G E Stelmach.
Abstract
A computational neural model of movement production in normal and Parkinson's disease (PD) is used to provide a neural account for the source of micrographia in PD handwriting. It is hypothesized that smaller than normal pallido-thalamic signals, due to dopamine depletion, are responsible for the observed overall smallness, slowness and variability in PD handwriting. Experimental data from PD patients that show micrographia support this hypothesis and imply the functional segregation of basal ganglia neural populations.Entities:
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Year: 1995 PMID: 8580447 DOI: 10.1097/00001756-199510010-00032
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neuroreport ISSN: 0959-4965 Impact factor: 1.837