Gait & Posture
Volume 26, Issue 2 , Pages 200-207 , July 2007

Long-term monitoring of gait in Parkinson's disease

  • Steven T. Moore

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Box 1135, 1 E 100th Street, New York, NY 10029, USA. Tel.: +1 212 241 9306; fax: +1 212 831 1610.
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  • Hamish G. MacDougall

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
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  • Jean-Michel Gracies

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
    • ,
  • Helen S. Cohen

      Affiliations

    • Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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  • William G. Ondo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Received 4 May 2006 ,Revised 21 July 2006 ,Accepted 8 September 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2006.09.011

Gait & Posture
Volume 26, Issue 2 , Pages 200-207 , July 2007

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