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Keeping your brain healthy | Drs Ayesha & Dean Sherzai

The Proof with Simon Hill

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Dopamine and Parkinson's

Most of the drugs are Targeting dopamine production synthesis correct or blocking its breakdown. We can't give dopamine in the right amounts because we either give too much where they develop these dyskinesias abnormal movements Or we give too little when they're freezing. So what do we do is now pumps the newest thing is Creating a pump to do it and so we're experimenting with pumps. The other thing that was being done is okay Dopamine goes to the basal ganglia and releases and it's an incredible circuitry It's literally circuitry This comes on this goes off and as a result of on off on off you have movement. But then this other indirect system has to be turned off so that

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