Akinesia

Known as: akinesias 
Lack of movement.
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Pure akinesia with gait freezing: a third clinical phenotype of progressive supranuclear palsy.
The clinical syndrome of pure akinesia has most often been associated with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and is… (More)
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Pedunculopontine nucleus stimulation improves akinesia in a Parkinsonian monkey.
We have studied the effects of stimulating the pedunculopontine nuclei through a fully implanted macroelectrode with a s.c… (More)
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Five-year follow-up of bilateral stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus in advanced Parkinson's disease.
BACKGROUND Although the short-term benefits of bilateral stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus in patients with advanced… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Pharmacological validation of behavioural measures of akinesia and dyskinesia in a rat model of Parkinson's disease.
In an attempt to define clinically relevant models of akinesia and dyskinesia in 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA)-lesioned rats, we… (More)
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2002
Highly Cited
2002
Right ventricular function in adults with repaired tetralogy of Fallot assessed with cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging: detrimental role of right ventricular outflow aneurysms or akinesia and…
OBJECTIVES We examined the relationship among biventricular hemodynamics, pulmonary regurgitant fraction (PRF), right ventricular… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Reversal of akinesia in experimental parkinsonism by GABA antagonist microinjections in the pedunculopontine nucleus.
Recent studies, mainly in animals, have shown that the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) in the upper brainstem has extensive… (More)
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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Forelimb akinesia in the rat Parkinson model: differential effects of dopamine agonists and nigral transplants as assessed by a new stepping test.
Methods for the assessment of akinesia in the unilateral rat Parkinson model have so far been lacking. The experiments reported… (More)
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Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
The primate subthalamic nucleus. II. Neuronal activity in the MPTP model of parkinsonism.
1. The neuronal mechanisms underlying the major motor signs of Parkinson's disease were studied in the basal ganglia of… (More)
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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Impaired activation of the supplementary motor area in Parkinson's disease is reversed when akinesia is treated with apomorphine.
Using positron emission tomography (PET) we previously showed that activation of the putamen, supplementary motor area, and… (More)
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Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Reversal of experimental parkinsonism by lesions of the subthalamic nucleus.
Although it is known that Parkinson's disease results from a loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra, the resulting… (More)
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