In Parkinson's disease, dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra are dramatically reduced in number, as are noradrenergic neurons in the locus coeruleus (Jellinger, 1986) and cholinergic neurons in the pedunculopontine nucleus (Zweig et al., 1989).

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