A 45-year-old man with a unilateral subthalamic nucleus (STN) lesion from a small stroke presents with contralateral hemiballismus, while a patient with bilateral striatal dopamine depletion (advanced Parkinson disease) presents with bradykinesia and rigidity. Which feature best discriminates the circuit dysfunction underlying these two presentations?

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