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World Parkinson's Day Puts Spotlight on Condition

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Scientific American

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🗓️ 11 April 2017

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research CEO Todd Sherer, a neuroscientist, talks about the state of Parkinson's disease and research. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Parkinson's is the second most common neurodegenerative disease. Neuroscientist Todd Scherer,

0:46.4

CEO of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's research. Fox, of course, is the actor who has

0:52.8

become the public face of Parkinson's. And it is mostly

0:56.2

its symptoms are characterized by motor symptoms. So patients or people have Parkinson's will have a

1:02.3

slowness of movement. They can have a tremor in their arms, a lot of trouble walking, and they can

1:08.3

also have rigidity. So it's hard to really bend and flex their muscles

1:13.0

and limbs that's the predominant symptoms that people have April 11th is World Parkinson's Day

1:20.6

so designated because it's the birthday of Dr. James Parkinson who described the condition 200 years

1:27.0

ago in 1817.

1:28.9

I spoke to Sherr, April 10th.

1:31.2

I mean, I think one of the things that has changed a lot about in Parkinson's disease

1:36.1

and in the last decade, and I do think a lot of this has to, is because of the work of Michael

1:41.2

J. Fox, is really raising awareness about this disease.

1:46.2

Parkinson's disease is something that people live with. It's part of their life, but they are

1:50.6

able to live with this and be productive and have make great contributions to the world and also

1:56.4

the contributions that they can make towards the search for a cure. So I think by raising awareness,

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