Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
Volume 13, Issue 7 , Pages 443-445 , October 2007

A comparison of fatigue measures in Parkinson's disease

  • Janet Grace

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI, USA
    • Memorial Hospital of RI, Pawtucket, RI, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Memorial Hospital of RI, 111 Brewster St., Pawtucket, RI, USA. Tel.: +14017292326.
    • ,
  • Alana Mendelsohn

      Affiliations

    • Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Joseph H. Friedman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI, USA
    • NeuroHealth, Warwick, RI, USA

Received 27 July 2006 ,Accepted 1 September 2006.

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PII: S1353-8020(06)00222-7

doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2006.09.001

Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
Volume 13, Issue 7 , Pages 443-445 , October 2007

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