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Giovanni Fabbrini

Researcher at Sapienza University of Rome

Publications -  318
Citations -  12735

Giovanni Fabbrini is an academic researcher from Sapienza University of Rome. The author has contributed to research in topics: Parkinson's disease & Dystonia. The author has an hindex of 56, co-authored 287 publications receiving 11067 citations. Previous affiliations of Giovanni Fabbrini include National Institutes of Health.

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Parkinson's disease: Autoimmunity and neuroinflammation

TL;DR: The past decade has provided evidence for a significant role of the immune system in PD pathogenesis, either through inflammation or an autoimmune response, and immune activation may be the cause of, rather than a response to, the observed neuronal loss.
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Levodopa pharmacokinetic mechanisms and motor fluctuations in Parkinson's disease

TL;DR: Although symptom duration was the best predictor of the severity of untreated parkinsonism, levodopa dose correlated best with response half‐time, and may provide a quantitative index of central mechanisms that favor the development of the wearing‐off and on‐off phemonena.