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Exploring Dynamic Brain Metabolism in PD
… in healthy volunteers and then evaluate the techniques in early PD patients. Impact on Diagnosis/Treatment of Parkinson’s disease: … of PD is obtained, which has the potential for diagnosis of early onset of PD as well as immediate assessment of …
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Giving Back and Giving Thanks at the Holidays
December 20, 2016
… young-onset Parkinson's disease several years ago in his early forties, the father of two and lawyer knew life was about to change. While some aspects of the diagnosis have been difficult, there have also been silver … His openness and dedication to speeding Parkinson's research have inspired those around him. His law firm, …
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Gilles D. Tamagnan, PhD
… is an associate professor adjunct in psychiatry and research scientist at Xuanwu Hospital in Beijing. He is also … experiments for the development of radiolabeled tracers into radiopharmaceuticals suitable for use in humans. He is … 70 CNS PET and SPECT imaging agents aimed at improving the diagnosis and treatment of neurologic and psychiatric …
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Quantitative SAAs for Alpha-synuclein from Various Matrices
… such that they can be more easily detected for the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD) are not quantitative … One possibility to improve SAAs is to convert them into a format in which the protein clumps can be … amplification assay (SAA)-based diagnosis of PD from CSF into the range where it can be applied in practice, and we …
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Pathophysiology of Neural Circuits Underlying Pain in Prodromal to Advanced Parkinson’s Disease
… some of the brainstem areas affected by PD, at very early stages before PD is diagnosed, include neural circuits … that experiences changes in the brainstem characteristic of early PD experience more pain than healthy mice. Hypothesis: … how these changes worsen the experience of pain. Impact on Diagnosis/Treatment of Parkinson’s disease: A better …