[Comment] Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors and gait: a steadying hand?
Cognitive impairment, complex movement disorders, and high risk of falls are all inter-related, levodopa-unresponsive symptoms in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease. Although Parkinson's disease is conventionally viewed as a motor syndrome that results from nigrostriatal dopaminergic denervation, there is also an intricate interplay between multisystem degeneration and neurotransmitter deficits other than the loss of nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons, especially deficits in the cholinergic system.
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