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Prevalence of Parkinson symptoms in patients with different peripheral vestibular disorders

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We thank Judy Benson for copy editing the manuscript. This work is part of the unpublished doctoral thesis of Constanze Wittmann.

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The study is not industry-sponsored. This work was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Grant codes 01 EO 0901 and 01 EO 1401), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) within the framework of the Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (EXC 1010 SyNergy), and the Deutsche Stiftung Neurologie (DSN).

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Becker-Bense, S., Wittmann, C., van Wensen, E. et al. Prevalence of Parkinson symptoms in patients with different peripheral vestibular disorders. J Neurol 264, 1287–1289 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-017-8470-7

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