Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
Volume 14, Issue 6 , Pages 489-494 , August 2008

Adaptation to cyclic stance perturbations in Parkinson's disease depends on postural demands

  • Eyal Weissblueth

      Affiliations

    • The College of Ohalo, Quatzrin 12900, Israel
    • ,
  • Miguel Schwartz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Bnay Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    • ,
  • Shraga Hocherman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, POB 9649, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +972 4 8295385.

Received 20 June 2007 ,Revised 4 November 2007 ,Accepted 19 December 2007.

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PII: S1353-8020(08)00018-7

doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2007.12.002

Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
Volume 14, Issue 6 , Pages 489-494 , August 2008

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