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From Shaking Palsy to Parkinson’s: Defining a Neurodegenerative Disease

The following is an excerpt from Brain Storms, by Jon Palfreman. Listen to SciFri on September 18, 2015, to hear Palfreman talk more about Parkinson’s disease. There are no portraits or engravings of James Parkinson,* just a commemorative stone tablet in St. Leonard’s church, Shoreditch, the East London parish where he was born, lived, and […]

Against the Grain: An Alternative View of Alzheimer’s

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