The University of Queensland has asked the European Journal of Neurology to retract a research paper after finding no evidence that the study described was ever carried out.
The lead author of the paper, which was published online in October 2011, is Bruce Murdoch, the founding head of the university’s Centre for Neurogenic Communication Disorders and former head of the university’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.
The paper described a technique, transcranial magnetic stimulation, which the authors claimed would help patients with Parkinson’s disease regain some of their ability to speak. BMJ 2013; 347 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f5500 (Published 6 September 2013)
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