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None of the instrumental met hods used for the detection of Parkinson’s disease, including biochemical tests and imaging techniques, have sufficiently been proved to be more reliable than clinical methods in terms of accuracy and specificity.
Nonetheless, the integration of multiple instrumental methods in field study designs could establish their diagnostic value as early markers in the preclinical stages of Parkinson’s disease.
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Przuntek, H. (1990). Early markers in Parkinson’s disease. In: Dostert, P., Riederer, P., Strolin Benedetti, M., Roncucci, R. (eds) Early Markers in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Diseases. New Vistas in Drug Research, vol 1. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9098-2_2
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