Decoding Parkinson’s: Scientists Aim to Put All the Clues on One Map

Decoding Parkinson’s: Scientists Aim to Put All the Clues on One Map

  • March 20, 2018
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Decoding Parkinson’s: Scientists Aim to Put All the Clues on One Map

Two centuries later, the disease named for Parkinson is still a puzzle. It is now known that the telltale external symptoms — rigidity, slow movement, a resting tremor — result from a loss of dopamine-rich neurons in a region of the brain called the substantia nigra. But the complete network of steps leading to this cell death is still vague, and the underlying causes remain one of medicine’s great mysteries.

Source: undark.org

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