Parkinson's disease insights: Damage to control circuits in the brain responsible for habits

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 16:30 in Health & Medicine

New research into Parkinson's disease suggests that many of the problems suffered by patients -- difficulties in initiating actions, slow labored movements and tremors -- can be understood in terms of damage to control circuits in the brain responsible for habits.

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