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without further ado this is the naked scientists hello welcome to the

naked scientists this is the show that brings you the latest breakthroughs in

science technology and

medicine. I'm Chris Smith. And this week we're taking a closer look at

Parkinson's Disease including what it is, what life's like if you have it, and what's being done to try to

treat and manage it better. This week, following the revelation that a man with debilitating Parkinson's disease has been helped

to walk again with a special implant that stimulates nerves in his spinal cord, that is what we're going to look at in this half hour.

We'll hear from the surgeon who performed his operation later on in the program.

But first, what's it like to live with Parkinson's disease?

Well, I've been speaking to the former BBC presenter and editor Mark Mardell who now makes

the Movers and Shakers podcast, which aims to promote better awareness of the disease.

I began by asking Mark when he realized something was up.

I noticed a few weirdnesses about my body,

particularly I was funny if you were to was getting packaging and I love cooking and I

spend a lot of my time cooking but wait for way to his packaging was just defeating me and I thought

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