Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
Volume 16, Issue 5 , Pages 358-359 , June 2010

Kleptomania, an unusual impulsive control disorder in Parkinson's disease?

  • Emilia M. Gatto

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Juramento 1155 3°A, Buenos Aires, ZP: 1428, Argentina. Tel.: +54 11 4785 30 97.

Received 1 December 2009

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☆ The review of this paper was entirely handled by the Co-Editor-in-chief, Ronald Pfeiffer.

PII: S1353-8020(10)00042-8

doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2010.02.004

Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
Volume 16, Issue 5 , Pages 358-359 , June 2010

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