Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
Volume 16, Issue 7 , Pages 466-470 , August 2010

Affective and cognitive theory of mind in patients with parkinson’s disease

  • Maren E. Bodden

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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  • Brit Mollenhauer

      Affiliations

    • Paracelsus-Elena-Hospital, Kassel, Germany
    • Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany
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  • Claudia Trenkwalder

      Affiliations

    • Paracelsus-Elena-Hospital, Kassel, Germany
    • Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany
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  • Nicole Cabanel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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  • Karla Maria Eggert

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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  • Marcus Michael Unger

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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  • Wolfgang Hermann Oertel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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  • Josef Kessler

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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  • Richard Dodel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Neurology, Philipps-University Marburg, Rudolf-Bultmannstr. 8, D-35039 Marburg, Germany. Tel.: +49 6421 5866251; fax: +49 6421 5865474.
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  • Elke Kalbe

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gerontology, University of Vechta, Vechta, Germany
    • Department of Neurology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
    • Cognitive Neurology Section (INM-3), Research Centre Juelich, Germany

Received 17 September 2009 ,Revised 24 February 2010 ,Accepted 27 April 2010.

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 The review of this paper was entirely handled by an Associate Editor, Jonathan Carr.

☆☆ Statistical analyses were conducted by E. Kalbe and M. Bodden.

PII: S1353-8020(10)00103-3

doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2010.04.014

Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
Volume 16, Issue 7 , Pages 466-470 , August 2010