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JOURNAL OF NEURAL TRANSMISSION
Volume 116, Issue 4, Pages 451-455Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00702-009-0203-3
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Imagination; GPi; Microrecording; Parkinson's disease
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Motor imagery is thought to involve the same processes of movement preparation as actual movement. Imagination of a simple repetitive movement significantly decreased the firing rate of extracellular micro recording at sensorimotor neurons of globus pallidus internus in three patients with Parkinson's disease, who underwent microelectrode-guided posteroventral pallidotomy. These findings suggest, in agreement with previous clinical and functional neuroimaging studies that the motor corticostriatal circuit could be engaged in mental simulation.
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