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ArticleBrain : a journal of neurology2014

'Don't delay, start today': delaying levodopa does not delay motor complications.

Susan H Fox, Anthony E Lang

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Article in Brain : a journal of neurology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. "Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2026
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  5. Pharmacotherapy in Early Parkinson's Disease: A Pragmatic Approach.Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology · 2025
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  12. Motor complications in Parkinson's disease: 13-year follow-up of the CamPaIGN cohort.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2020
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  14. Impulse Control Disorders in REM Sleep Behavior Disorder.Current treatment options in neurology · 2019
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  16. Dyskinesias and levodopa therapy: why wait?Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Susan H FoxEdmond J. Safra Program in Parkinson's Disease, Toronto Western Hospital, Canada.
Anthony E LangEdmond J. Safra Program in Parkinson's Disease, Toronto Western Hospital, Canada lang@uhnres.utoronto.ca.
Toronto Western Hospital · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Antiparkinson AgentsFemaleHumansLevodopaMaleParkinson DiseaseAntiparkinson AgentsLevodopa

Identifiers

PMID25217790
OpenAlexW2039057450

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.