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What does it mean to conceptualize Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive disorder rather than a motor disorder?


The substantia nigra and all Parkinson’s disease deep-brain stimulation targets are selectively connected to the somato-cognitive action network rather than to effector-specific motor regions.

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