Past, present, and future of Parkinson's disease: A special essay on the 200th Anniversary of the Shaking Palsy

JA Obeso, M Stamelou, CG Goetz, W Poewe… - Movement …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
This article reviews and summarizes 200 years of Parkinson's disease. It comprises a
relevant history of Dr. James Parkinson's himself and what he described accurately and …

Cerebral causes and consequences of parkinsonian resting tremor: a tale of two circuits?

RC Helmich, M Hallett, G Deuschl, I Toni, BR Bloem - Brain, 2012‏ - academic.oup.com
Tremor in Parkinson's disease has several mysterious features. Clinically, tremor is seen in
only three out of four patients with Parkinson's disease, and tremor-dominant patients …

The pathophysiology of essential tremor and Parkinson's tremor

RC Helmich, I Toni, G Deuschl, BR Bloem - Current neurology and …, 2013‏ - Springer
We review recent evidence about the pathophysiology of essential tremor and tremor in
Parkinson's disease. We believe that a network perspective is necessary to understand this …

Alterations in neuronal activity in basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuits in the parkinsonian state

A Galvan, A Devergnas, T Wichmann - Frontiers in neuroanatomy, 2015‏ - frontiersin.org
In patients with Parkinson's disease and in animal models of this disorder, neurons in the
basal ganglia and related regions in thalamus and cortex show changes that can be …

Parkinsonian beta oscillations in the external globus pallidus and their relationship with subthalamic nucleus activity

N Mallet, A Pogosyan, LF Márton, JP Bolam… - Journal of …, 2008‏ - jneurosci.org
Inappropriately synchronized beta (β) oscillations (15–30 Hz) in the subthalamic nucleus
(STN) accompany movement difficulties in idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD). The cellular …

Information processing, dimensionality reduction and reinforcement learning in the basal ganglia

I Bar-Gad, G Morris, H Bergman - Progress in neurobiology, 2003‏ - Elsevier
Modeling of the basal ganglia has played a major role in our understanding of this elusive
group of nuclei. Models of the basal ganglia have undergone evolutionary and revolutionary …

A physiologically plausible model of action selection and oscillatory activity in the basal ganglia

MD Humphries, RD Stewart, KN Gurney - Journal of Neuroscience, 2006‏ - jneurosci.org
The basal ganglia (BG) have long been implicated in both motor function and dysfunction. It
has been proposed that the BG form a centralized action selection circuit, resolving conflict …

The cerebral network of Parkinson's tremor: an effective connectivity fMRI study

MF Dirkx, H den Ouden, E Aarts, M Timmer… - Journal of …, 2016‏ - jneurosci.org
Parkinson's resting tremor has been linked to pathophysiological changes both in the basal
ganglia and in a cerebello-thalamo-cortical motor loop, but the role of those circuits in …

The external globus pallidus: progress and perspectives

DJ Hegeman, ES Hong… - European Journal of …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
The external globus pallidus (GP e) of the basal ganglia is in a unique and powerful position
to influence processing of motor information by virtue of its widespread projections to all …

Rapid alterations in corticostriatal ensemble coordination during acute dopamine-dependent motor dysfunction

RM Costa, SC Lin, TD Sotnikova, M Cyr… - Neuron, 2006‏ - cell.com
Dopaminergic dysregulation can cause motor dysfunction, but the mechanisms underlying
dopamine-related motor disorders remain under debate. We used an inducible and …