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One purpose of this paper is to show that the concepts of locomotor physiology as they have been expressed in this symposium are useful for the analysis of motor disorders of basal ganglia diseases such as Parkinson’s disease.
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Ingvarsson, P.E., Johnels, B., Steg, G. (1986). Dissolution of Motor Program Coordination in Parkinson’s Disease. In: Grillner, S., Stein, P.S.G., Stuart, D.G., Forssberg, H., Herman, R.M. (eds) Neurobiology of Vertebrate Locomotion. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09148-5_8
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