| In Parkinson's disease, production of a substance called dopamine in the brain is reduced. |
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| Only her slightly erratic movements and an obvious weariness remind you that for the past 25 years she has suffered from Parkinson's disease. |
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| In one study, researchers exposed laboratory rats to a toxin that is known to cause Parkinson's disease. |
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| Images of John Paul II have shown him gaunt, pained and ravaged by Parkinson's disease and arthritis. |
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| If you have mood disorders such as depression, currently take mood-altering medication or have Parkinson's disease, avoid the herb kava. |
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| As Parkinson's disease took hold, he developed a phobia about the cracks between paving stones. |
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| Stroke and Parkinson's disease are the leading causes, frequently requiring enteral alimentation through nasogastric or gastrostomy tubes. |
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| Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's disease can make people lose their sense of smell. |
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| Dyskinesias are caused by levodopa, the mainstay medication in Parkinson's treatment. |
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| The drug levodopa, which is used more commonly than dopamine agonists to treat Parkinson's, was not linked to any compulsive behaviors. |
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| The dopamine precursor levodopa is the most common treatment for Parkinson's disease. |
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| A team of Canadian scientists gave either an active drug, apomorphine, or a dummy drug to a group of six Parkinson's patients. |
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| People say that it can help people with illnesses such as arthritis and Parkinson's syndrome. |
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| Parkinson's disease attacks and destroys these nerve cells, meaning the brain is starved of dopamine. |
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| New genetic tests would identify the exact risk of an individual developing heart disease or Parkinson's as he or she aged. |
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| Coffee drinkers have a 30 per cent lower risk of Parkinson's disease than non-drinkers. |
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| Dopamine production goes awry in the brains of Parkinson's patients, leading to the muscle rigidity and tremors associated with the disorder. |
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| A lack of it is involved in Parkinson's disease, which causes tremors and twitches. |
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| Untold human misery and suffering could be stemmed if Parkinson's disease became treatable. |
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| But there was also a bitter-sweet atmosphere in Rome since the 83-year-old pope, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, is so clearly ailing. |
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| He had suffered a fatal blood clot, likely to have been brought on by periods of sustained immobility caused by Parkinson's disease. |
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| She suffered from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease and was largely unresponsive and he knew she could put up no resistance. |
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| Brain surgery to remove a tumour or to alleviate the symptoms of neurological diseases, like Parkinson's, it's fairly commonplace today. |
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| The marmoset is a key model organism used in neurobiological studies of multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease. |
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| Scientists have found a clue that could explain the neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease. |
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| In Ireland an estimated 7,000 people suffer from Parkinson's Disease, a progressive neurological condition. |
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| The link can't yet be explained, and the intake of calcium was not connected to Parkinson's disease. |
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| The potential of stem cells to repair injured spinal cords or brains damaged by Parkinson's Disease is an exciting one. |
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| Mr. Roy, who has been a staunch supporter of Mr. Deo in providing succour to Parkinson's victims, translated the speech for the audience. |
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| He had yet to be diagnosed with the Parkinson's disease that would afflict his old age and he was still fighting. |
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| In fact epilepsy is more than three times as common as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and cerebral palsy. |
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| This occurs in conditions including multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury and Parkinson's disease. |
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| Advances in the treatment of Parkinson's disease, asthma and strokes have all been made as a result of research with primates. |
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| Cells grown from stem cells could be used to treat a range of illnesses from Parkinson's disease and diabetes to heart disease. |
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| In theory, they could be used to treat diseases such as diabetes, stroke and Parkinson's disease. |
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| There are people with Parkinson's disease who have elderly parents dependent on them when they, themselves, need care. |
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| In later life he had what his colleagues regarded as Parkinson's disease or a related movement disorder, from which he died. |
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| Many neurological conditions, such as Parkinson's disease and stroke, affect the timings of the muscle activity. |
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| Persistent sounds could be a symptom of a serious condition such as a brain tumor or Parkinson's disease. |
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| What use may these cells, which can be turned into other tissues, be to people with diabetes or Parkinson's disease? |
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| Will embryonic stem cells be a useful source of dopamine neurons for transplant into patients with Parkinson's disease? |
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| Acupuncture may also help Parkinson's disease, by calming the tremors and easing stiffness. |
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| Discoveries could ultimately lead to cures for Parkinson's disease and other illnesses. |
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| Stem cells could be used to introduce healthy, dopamine producing neurones in the brain of a patient with Parkinson's disease. |
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| The patients had had symptoms of Parkinson's disease for an average of 12 years. |
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| A reduction of dose would lead to a worsening of motor symptoms, counter to the primary aim of treating Parkinson's disease. |
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| Psychiatric symptoms frequently coexist with idiopathic Parkinson's disease and are often underdiagnosed and poorly treated. |
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| His back was straight again, after all those years of being so pitiably hunched and trembling from the Parkinson's disease. |
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| My elderly passenger was invalided with Parkinson's Disease and had suffered a stroke. |
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| Parkinson's disease affects a part of the brain's motor system called the basal ganglia. |
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| His ability to handle such a big movie became less and less likely as he became increasingly debilitated by Parkinson's disease. |
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| He is now, at 79, battling the increasing debility of his body, which is failing under the invasion of Parkinson's disease. |
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| The procedure, called deep brain stimulation, has been used for other movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease. |
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| After a series of tests she was diagnosed with Parkinson's and given various drugs to find the right mix for her. |
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| Parkinson's Disease sufferers experience the same benefit from an inactive dummy drug as they do from a real medicine, new research has shown. |
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| Unlike Parkinson's disease, however, essential tremor doesn't lead to serious complications. |
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| When high levels of L-dopa were used to treat Parkinson's Disease type symptoms, the individuals concerned developed acute paranoid psychoses. |
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| The longer a woman's fertile life, the more likely she will develop Parkinson's disease. |
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| With Parkinson's, however, these special nerve cells break down, the supply of dopamine dwindles, and movement is affected. |
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| Parkinson's wreaks havoc by affecting nerve cells in the brain that make the neurotransmitter called dopamine. |
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| In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration has approved deep brain stimulation for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, essential tremor and dystonia. |
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| Don't take kava or California poppy with Parkinson's medication, and be wary of combining them with central nervous system depressants or the drug pentobarbitol. |
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| In older patients with Parkinson's disease, changes in the tricuspid valve may be most diagnostic, because the aortic and mitral valves may show age-related changes. |
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| These types of drugs are used to slow the progression Parkinson's disease. |
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| These are likely to prove a key element in future regenerative treatments for conditions including Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's and heart ailments. |
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| Parkinson's disease is a common neurodegenerative disorder, predominantly of the elderly, manifested by rigidity, tremors and movement difficulty. |
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| His speech, impaired by Parkinson's, is garbled, but he plugged along. |
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| Other underlying causes include arthritis, kidney disease, heart failure, asthma, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, restless legs syndrome, Parkinson's disease, and hyperthyroidism. |
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| Researchers say, however, that the benefits of eating foods rich in iron and manganese and taking multivitamins outweigh the risk of developing Parkinson's disease. |
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| Suffering from prostate cancer, Parkinson's and water on the brain, the preacher will speak from an ingenious pulpit designed to allow him to evangelise in a sitting position. |
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| A successful example of this approach is the use of two dopaminergic medications, bromocriptine and L-DOPA, in the treatment of Parkinson's disease. |
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| Whatever the reason, I'll be wishing him well because, in our adversarial, interrogative culture, there's still a place for Parkinson's gentlemanly, self-effacing approach. |
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| Swiss actor, Bruno Ganz, portrays Hitler, and is said to achieve a photographic likeness of the stooped, 56-year-old dictator, who was plagued by Parkinson's disease. |
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| Deborah W. Brooks, co-founder with Fox at his Parkinson's foundation, on the secret to his comeback. |
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| These misbeliefs are commonly associated with schizophrenia, but they can also occur in people with brain injuries, Huntington's and Parkinson's disease and dementia. |
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| Other therapies that have a crucial role in managing and coping with Parkinson's disease include physiotherapy, speech therapy, and occupational therapy. |
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| The researchers also speculated that disturbances in p53 may also play a role in some forms of Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease. |
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| According to Sky News, during the confrontation, lt Col Parkinson's hand was cut off and he was fatally wounded. |
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| Parkinson's super 40-yard angled pass split the Ashton defence and it was all keeper Trueman could do to poleaxe Fitzgerald as he homed in on goal. |
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| An American company has applied to experiment in Britain on Parkinson's disease sufferers by injecting their brains with cells from pigs. |
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| No players in the study had dysarthria, Parkinson's Disease or cerebellar dysfunction. |
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| Are electrophysiological autonomic tests useful in the assessment of dysautonomia in Parkinson's disease? |
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| Alan is now working tirelessly towards the creation and launch of his Parkies beer to raise PS15,000 for Parkinson's nurses. |
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| Parkinsonism is a neurologic syndrome that has clinical features similar to Parkinson's disease. |
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| Fox, star of the hit sitcom, announced that he would be leaving the show because of Parkinson's Disease. |
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| People with Parkinson's continue to take advantage of the program's tools and resources designed to help optimize care. |
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| Deep Brain Stimulation, a surgical procedure, is sometimes used to help reduce the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. |
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| She works tirelessly for people with Parkinson's disease in Cardiff and the Vale and deserves all the recognition she gets. |
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| The person with Parkinson's disease and his or her family are often left unaided to anticipate and adapt to the long-term social implications. |
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| Whatever the merit of Parkinson's Law, the blunt economic truth is that Birmingham is not doing as well as many of its competitor cities. |
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| Examples of frequently covered critical illnesses include Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's syndrome and multiple sclerosis. |
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| The 63-year-old Wicklow farmer, who lived in a Dublin nursing home before his trial, suffers from Parkinson's syndrome and needs full-time care. |
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| The punishment meted out to Ali, through the three fights, caught up in the form of Parkinson's Syndrome. |
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| Essential tremor, a neurological disorder that causes hand tremors, is suspected by some researchers to be a forme fruste of Parkinson's Disease. |
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| Tests ruled out multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Wilson's disease and other disorders, while symptoms worsened over the next year. |
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| Parkinson's disease is characterized by symptoms such as postural instability, akinesia, and bradykinesia among others. |
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| A GRANDAD battling Parkinson's Disease has finally been accepted for a wonder drug that could transform his life. |
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| Van Den Eeden explained that amphetamines affect the release and uptake of dopamine, the key neurotransmitter involved in Parkinson's disease. |
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| A putative founder effect for Parkinson's disease in South African Afrikaners. |
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| Savery E Amantadine and a fixed combination of levodopa and carbidopa in the treatment of Parkinson's disease. |
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| The gold standard is what I'm on, Sinemet, which alleviates the symptoms of Parkinson's because it supplies dopamine. |
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| Many people with Parkinson's disease have symptoms of RLS long before receiving a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. |
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| Parkinson's Disease is a peculiarly horrid affliction for sufferers much saintlier than he was. |
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| The Parkinson's UK Moveable Feast allows diners to eat a different course in three different restaurants. |
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| An enzyme that naturally occurs in the brain helps destroy the mutated protein that is the most common cause of inherited Parkinson's disease. |
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| This approach wastes time due to bad multitasking, Student syndrome, Parkinson's Law and poorly synchronized integration. |
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| A neighbour of mine is 60 years old, he has Parkinson's Disease and has poor eye sight. |
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| Lendormin is a sleep inducer and Bi-Sifrol is an agent for treating Parkinson's disease. |
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| Deep brain stimulation is already given to some Parkinson's disease patients who do not react to drugs. |
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| Pallidal versus subthalamic deep-brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease. |
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| Another type of stereo-tactic surgery, called stereotactic pallidotomy, is dramatically helping Parkinson's patients. |
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| Computerized pallidotomy software to mitigate symptoms of advanced Parkinson's disease. |
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| Examples of neurological causes of PLC are pseudo-bulbar palsy, gelastic seizures, Alzheimer's disease, multi-infarct dementia, Parkinson's disease and Down syndrome. |
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| The researchers checked their laboratory findings with brain samples from Parkinson's disease patients and found the same nuclear envelope impairment. |
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| Francesca Segal said her father, who also wrote the screenplay for The Beatles' animated film Yellow Submarine, had battled Parkinson's disease for 30 years. |
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| When a neuron is damaged by a toxin such as in Parkinson's, the astrocyte population grows rapidly around the other neurons in order to protect them from further damage. |
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| Gary Catona was first profiled in the New York Times in 1985 in connection to his work with Muhammad Ali, who suffered from a vocal disorder related to Parkinson's syndrome. |
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| Without being pejorative, figures of this type tend to follow a derivative of Parkinson's law, expanding to fit the available space on the balance sheet. |
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| He told of how he found out he needed a deaf aid one day, heartburn pills the next and was diagnosed with prostate cancer and Parkinson's disease the next. |
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| Anyone who needs to read each word of a letter or article in order to understand its essence or theme should at least be capable of recognising irony and Parkinson's Law. |
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| Omega-3 fatty acid deficiency is also linked to Parkinson's disease. |
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| This is a totally new approach and we believe that this might become a breakthrough in the research of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. |
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| Urge incontinence can also be induced by spinal cord injuries, brain tumors, Parkinson's disease, chronic diabetes, cerebrovascular accident, and multiple sclerosis. |
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| Stewart received another year's ban for possession of levodopa and carbidopa, used to treat Parkinson's disease in humans but Class A banned substances in horseracing. |
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| Parkinson's disease has a complex relationship to dementia and depression, as well as to the medications used to treat the motor components of the illness. |
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| MitoKor is the first company to advance cybrid models for neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, and metabolic disorders such as type II diabetes. |
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| Also included are a glossary of terms, list of support organizations, and a list of commonly prescribed medications for Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia. |
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| Parkinson's official teaching initiation was a trial by fire. |
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| Hardy and colleagues published in Science that triplication of the alpha-synuclein gene caused Parkinson's in a family with high incidence of the disease. |
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| These lawsuits allege that welders' exposure to manganese-containing welding fumes caused neurological damage such as Parkinson's disease and other similar movement disorders. |
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| The finding offers a clue to why men are more likely than women to develop dopamine-related illnesses such as Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, and addiction. |
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