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Parkinsonian Disorders

"Parkinsonian Disorders" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A group of disorders which feature impaired motor control characterized by bradykinesia, MUSCLE RIGIDITY; TREMOR; and postural instability. Parkinsonian diseases are generally divided into primary parkinsonism (see PARKINSON DISEASE), secondary parkinsonism (see PARKINSON DISEASE, SECONDARY) and inherited forms. These conditions are associated with dysfunction of dopaminergic or closely related motor integration neuronal pathways in the BASAL GANGLIA.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Parkinsonian Disorders" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Parkinsonian Disorders" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 188 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 15 publications in 2007
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