The major motor disturbances in Parkinson's disease are thought to be caused by overactivity of the GABAergic internal segment of the globus pallidus (GPi), which acts as a brake on the motor thalamus and the cortical motor system to produce the slowness, rigidity, and poverty of movement characteristic of parkinsonian states.
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