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Blink rates and disorders of movement
- Source :
- Neurology. 34:677-677
- Publication Year :
- 1984
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 1984.
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Abstract
- Blink rate, a putative noninvasive marker of central dopamine activity, was assessed in medication-free patients with Parkinson's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, Huntington's disease, and dystonia. The normal control rate of 24 blinks per minute was significantly higher than the rate of 12 and 4 blinks per minute recorded for patients with Parkinson's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy, respectively. The rates for patients with Huntington's disease and dystonia did not differ significantly from those of controls (36 and 26 blinks per minute, respectively).
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities
medicine.medical_specialty
genetic structures
Bulbar Palsy, Progressive
Progressive supranuclear palsy
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Dopamine
mental disorders
medicine
Humans
Normal control
Bulbar palsy
Dystonia
Blinking
business.industry
Parkinson Disease
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
nervous system diseases
Huntington Disease
Female
Neurology (clinical)
medicine.symptom
business
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1526632X and 00283878
- Volume :
- 34
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Neurology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....48233e55d4ec739e64164f17ef459021