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Article: Akinesia and the Frontal Lobe
- Article from:
- Clinical EEG and Neuroscience
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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Key Words
Akinesia
Catatonia
Epilepsy
Frontal Lobe
Parkinson Disease
ABSTRACT
A report of severe akinetic episodes in patients with Parkinson disease (PD) has been the stimulus for the following discussion of akinesia and its variants. Severe persistent akinesia may occur in frontal lobe impairment. Therefore, it is likely that extension of the Parkinsonian dysfunction into the frontal lobe causes severe akinesia which should be separated from the very common Parkinsonian hypokinesia. Another very common clinical phenomenon of PD is sudden freezing. Hence the frontal lobe - hardly regarded as a region of special interest in the realm of PD - can be the cause of severe and dangerous ...