The future of movement disorders
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The Neuroscience of Parkinson's Disease
In Parkinson's disease, and I'll stick to the motor problems because we know there are also a lot of non-motor problems. People may develop a tremor, meaning that one of their limbs will shake. And then as time goes on, they can develop a problem with their walking, which is called freezing. So it affects all aspects of the body; people actually can get slowness of thinking, sl slowess of speech. It's interesting that many people have actually shoulder surgery for frozen shoulders,. Which turns out to be a limb that wasn't moving because of Parkinson's disease.
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