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Book review
Mental and behavioral dysfunction in movement disorders
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Marc-Andre Bedard, Yves Agid, Sylvain Chouinard, Stanley Fahn, Amos D Korczyn, Paul Lesperance. New Jersey: Humana Press 2003, pp 543, $185.00 (hardback). ISBN 1-58829-119-7
It was not long ago that the basal ganglia were confidently asserted to have no influence on cognition, and to have only motor functions. This was the province of neurology, and the concept that they might be involved in disordered behaviour other than that referred to as movement disorders was an anathema to generations of neurologists.
As Goetz notes, in the introduction …