Brain Update: The basal ganglia and movement disorders

Journal/Book: Perspect Psychiatr Care. 1996; 32: 1211 Locust St, Philadelphia, PA 19107. Nursecom Inc. 30-32.

Abstract: Brain Update provides practicing nurses with featured aspects of brain biology. PPC offers this feature in an effort to enable nurses to integrate brain biology into their practice. The purpose of this column is to focus on the biological causes of mental illness. Topics of future columns will include the limbic system, the extrapyramidal system, and the role of biology in schizophrenia.

Note: Article NL Keltner, Univ Alabama, Sch Nursing, Birmingham, AL 35294 USA

Keyword(s): basal ganglia; caudate nucleus; globus pallidus; lentiform nucleus; putamen; striatum

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