"All patients with Parkinson's disease learn tricks of various sorts—to "unfreeze" themselves, to initiate and control motion, to transfer tremor and rigidity from limb to another, etc, etc. Such tricks or strategies, were analysed in detail by A R Luria in the 1920s and by James Pardon Martin (especially in his 1967 book, The Basal Ganglia and Posture), but these analyses would not have been possible without the aid of patients."
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