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

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Raymond Garcin, professor of neurology in Paris, France, and his Brazilian assistant, Professor Roberto Melaragno described in 1948 the phenomenon defined as “bégaiement 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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  1. Neurology Service, Internal Medicine Department, Hospital de Clínicas, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil

    Hélio A. G. Teive & Matheus Gomes Ferreira

  2. Neurological Diseases Group, Postgraduate Program in Internal Medicine, Hospital de Clínicas, Federal University of Paraná, Rua General Carneiro 181, Centro, Curitiba, PR, 80060-000, Brazil

    Hélio A. G. Teive & Carlos Henrique F. Camargo

  3. Institut du Cerveau Et de La Moelle Épinière (ICM), CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

    Paulina Cunha & Yves Agid

  4. Movement Disorders Clinic, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine of the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    João Carlos P. Limongi & Egberto Reis Barbosa

  5. Private Clinic, Brou, France

    Olivier Walusinski

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Teive, H.A.G., Cunha, P., Ferreira, M.G. et al. Freezing of gait (FOG) in Parkinson’s disease patients—the contribution of Garcin and Melaragno. Neurol Sci 42, 5413–5417 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-021-05381-1

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