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Surgical procedures involving pallidotomy are sometimes helpful.
The transplantation of genetically engineered cell lines will probably become the optimal transplantation procedure. The cause of Parkinson's disease may relate to oxidant stress and the generation of free radicals. University of Tubingen, Germany. The atypical antipsychotic drug clozapine is the treatment of choice for the alleviation of levodopa-induced psychosis. Clozapine also has beneficial effects on tremor and levodopa-induced dyskinesias.