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Placebo-responsive Parkinson patients show decreased activity in single neurons of subthalamic nucle...

Placebo-responsive Parkinson patients show decreased activity in single neurons of subthalamic nucle...

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Placebo-responsive Parkinson patients show decreased activity in single neurons of subthalamic nucleus

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Placebo-responsive Parkinson patients show decreased activity in single neurons of subthalamic nucleus

Publisher

New York: Nature Publishing Group US

Journal title

Nature neuroscience, 2004-06, Vol.7 (6), p.587-588

Language

English

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New York: Nature Publishing Group US

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Contents

Placebo administration is known to affect the brain both in pain and in Parkinson disease. Here we show that placebo treatment caused reduced activity in single neurons in the subthalamic nucleus of placebo-responsive Parkinsonian patients. These changes in activity were tightly correlated with clinical improvement; no decrease in activity occurred...

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Placebo-responsive Parkinson patients show decreased activity in single neurons of subthalamic nucleus

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_71965378

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_71965378

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ISSN

1097-6256

E-ISSN

1546-1726

DOI

10.1038/nn1250

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