Nature Medicine
3, 602 - 603 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm0697-602
Tracing the brain's circuitry with functional imagingScott T. Grafton
& Mahlon DeLongDepartment of Neurology Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322, USA Electrical stimulation of the globus pallidus alleviates the symptoms of Parkinson's disease by increasing activity of brain areas involved in movement (pages 671−674).
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