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History of Surgery for Movement Disorders

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Springer Berlin Heidelberg, (2009), 1467-1485
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69960-6_87
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Since the beginnings of neurosurgery, operations have been done throughout the central nervous system to treat movement disorders. Horsley felt that athetosis resulted from abnormal cortical discharge and proposed excision of the area of motor cortex somatotopically...

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Parrent, A. G. (2009). History of Surgery for Movement Disorders. In Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (pp. 1467–1485). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69960-6_87

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