Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment (Mar 2018)

Therapeutic deep brain stimulation worsening dysprosody in Parkinson’s disease – an unexplored entity

  • Shoaib M,
  • Khan MT

Journal volume & issue
Vol. Volume 14
pp. 767 – 768

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Maria Shoaib,1 Muhammad Taimoor Khan2 1Department of Medicine, Dow Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan; 2Department of Neurology, Charleston Area Medical Center/West Virginia University, Charleston, WV, USA  We read this article, “Altered emotional recognition and expression in patients with Parkinson’s disease” by Jin et al1 with great interest and appreciate the novel information provided on altered emotional processing in pre-deep brain stimulation (DBS) Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients and we would like to add our feedback on the role of DBS on nonmotor and emotional components of PD.View the original paper by Jin and colleagues. 

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