Look at the patient’s blink rate. If a patient is truly bradykinetic or parkinsonian, his or her blink rate will be decreased. If this is due to psychiatric depression or psychogenic movement disorder, then the blink rate will be normal.—DIANA FERMAN, PA-C, Los Angeles, Calif. (205-3)
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