Parkinson's disease

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Parkinson’s Disease

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If your family or friends have not been touched by Parkinson’s Disease, a neurologic disorder characterized by uncontrolled or unintended movement, Michael J. Fox is the person that might come to mind.

Here are the eleven from Nature, plus two bonus picks from me.

Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is diagnosed by a cluster of symptoms related to its effect on motor nerves. There is no lab test or imaging study that makes the diagnosis.

Dear Hollywood:

In the 1970s chemists in the illicit drug business began exploring a new class of psychoactive drugs, which were structurally related to the synthetic opiate Demerol. The following story is truly one-in-a-million.

The prevalence of dementia in the United States significantly declined from 11.6% in 2000 to 8.8% in 2012.  A new study by JAMA Internal Medicine

Parkinson s Disease (PD), a neurodegenerative disorder of the central nervous sy