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Freezing of gait (FOG) in Parkinson's disease patients-the contribution of Garcin and Melaragno

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NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 42, Issue 12, Pages 5413-5417

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SPRINGER-VERLAG ITALIA SRL
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-021-05381-1

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Parkinsonism; Parkinson's disease; Gait disorder; Freezing; Freezing of gait

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The paragraph discusses the description of "bégaiement de la mise en route du mouvement" phenomenon in patients with Parkinson's disease by Raymond Garcin, a neurology professor in Paris, France, and his Brazilian assistant, Professor Roberto Melaragno in 1948, which was one of the first descriptions of freezing of gait (FOG) in the world.
Raymond Garcin, professor of neurology in Paris, France, and his Brazilian assistant, Professor Roberto Melaragno described in 1948 the phenomenon defined as begaiement de la mise en route du mouvement in patients with Parkinson's disease. This was one of the first descriptions of freezing of gait (FOG) in the world.

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