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Recent advances in quantitative procedures have greatly enhanced the sensitivity, objectivity, and reliability of neurologic evaluation and diagnosis. Innovative electrophysiologic, radiologic, and biochemical laboratory procedures have proven useful to the clinician, whose traditional evaluation of the patient has been based on inference and indirect evidence of disease processes and pathologies.
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Potvin, A.R., Tourtellotte, W.W., Kondraske, G.V., Syndulko, K., Potvin, J.H. (1995). Selecting Neurologic Function Tests for Parkinson’s Disease: A Primer. In: Przuntek, H., Kraus, P.H., Klotz, P., Korczyn, A.D. (eds) Instrumental Methods and Scoring in Extrapyramidal Disorders. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78914-4_5
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