Impaired activity of the supplementary motor area in akinetic patients with Parkinson's disease. Improvement by the dopamine agonist apomorphine

MeSH terms

• Aged
• Apomorphine / therapeutic use*
• Brain / blood supply
• Dopamine / physiology
• Female
• Humans
• Injections, Subcutaneous
• Levodopa / therapeutic use
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Motor Activity / drug effects
• Motor Activity / physiology
• Motor Cortex / drug effects*
• Motor Cortex / physiopathology
• Movement Disorders / drug therapy*
• Movement Disorders / physiopathology
• Muscle Rigidity / drug therapy
• Muscle Rigidity / physiopathology
• Neurologic Examination / drug effects
• Parkinson Disease / drug therapy*
• Parkinson Disease / physiopathology
• Regional Blood Flow / drug effects
• Regional Blood Flow / physiology
• Somatosensory Cortex / drug effects
• Somatosensory Cortex / physiopathology
• Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon