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Electrophysiological methods and motor performance tests are shown to be helpful to the early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. The most sensitive out of five motor tests studied here is visuo-manual tracking. Tremor recordings allow to differentiate between physiological and pathological tremor. An enhancement of long-latency reflexes may precede the development of parkinsonian symptoms on the hitherto unaffected side in unilateral parkinsonism. The combination of motor function tests with tremor and long-latency reflex recordings is likely to be more sensitive than any single test.
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Lücking, C.H., Hufschmidt, A., Deuschl, G. (1990). Electrophysiological methods in the early diagnosis of 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_7
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