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- noun neurology, pathology
Parkinson's syndrome .
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These so-called secondary dementias often present with other neurological signs in addition to dementia, such as parkinsonism, myoclonus, seizures, chorea, ataxia, and sensory signs.
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People who suffer from parkinsonism have many of the same symptoms but in a milder and usually undegenerative form.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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People who suffer from parkinsonism have many of the same symptoms but in a milder and usually undegenerative form.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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People who suffer from parkinsonism have many of the same symptoms but in a milder and usually undegenerative form.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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People who suffer from parkinsonism have many of the same symptoms but in a milder and usually undegenerative form.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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Mayo Clinic researchers and a group of international collaborators have discovered a correlation between an extreme form of sleep disorder and eventual onset of parkinsonism or dementia.
May 16th, 2007 2007
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"Still Life with Action Figure," a particularly realist exercise, actually occurs in suburbia, where an artist son visits his artist father, who has resumed painting despite suffering from parkinsonism.
ccfinlay: You Make My Heart Sing ccfinlay 2005
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An article at the NPF site - Adolf Hitler's Parkinson's Disease (Part 1) (Part 2) - covers the documented evidence for Hilter's parkinsonism, as well as discussing alternative diagnoses.
Archive 2004-07-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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Although it's now generally agreed that Hitler suffered from parkinsonism, it seems that it manifested earlier than is common for idiopathic parkinsonism (the usual adult-onset form).
Archive 2004-07-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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At the medical-pharmaceutical-political blog Black Triangle this entry, Incurable tyrants, mentions an interesting historical diagnosis: that Adolf Hitler suffered from the long-term effects of encephalitis lethargica (aka 'sleepy sickness' or von Economo's encephalitis), whose delayed sequel was a severe syndrome of parkinsonism, memorably featured in the Oliver Sacks book and film Awakenings.
Archive 2004-07-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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