Parkinsonism, symptoms, research, treatments

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Transcriot 5 oh well uh welcome um the time to kick off 0:12 thank you for coming to my little session I've got about 40 minutes and I hope to uh to make genetics 0:18 intelligible to to everyone um it's a difficult subject to uh for most 0:25 people to get their head around because uh it's pretty esoteric and most people didn't have much of an education in it 0:31 most of the neurologists I work with don't have much of an education in it either so um so don't don't be 0:38 intimidated by that um the reasons uh for studying it and so 0:46 please come on in here that's okay 0:52 um the reasons genetics are important aren't probably the reasons that you're 0:57 thinking about you might be thinking about personalized medicine you might be thinking about 1:02 why me why did I get Parkinson's disease you might be thinking about prognosis 1:09 you know more of my life look like in 10 years time if I know about my genetic 1:15 predispositions to th...

transcript 6 it's awful slow the onset of progression 0:09 of Parkinson's disease coming can we 0:10 actually do this and I think the first 0:13 thing to recognize is what is 0:15 Parkinson's this is not a simple 0:17 disorder this is actually very complex 0:20 disorder and the view about Parkinson's Its not just a movement disorder 0:22 is it's not just a movement disorder 0:24 it's not just something that's due to 0:27 degeneration one part of the brain it's 0:29 not just to do with dopamine it's in 0:31 fact may not even be a brain disorder it 0:33 might be something uh sweeps in from the 0:35 gut it's not a static disorder and it's 0:38 actually I don't think it's a single 0:40 disease at all I think it's an 0:42 individual disease and people need to be 0:44 treated as individuals and if you 0:46 understand this you get an idea of the 0:49 magnitude of the problem we're facing 0:50 and trying to do something about the ...

Transcipt: (to be tidied up) 0:00 so welcome everyone here we go welcome everyone my name is michelle 0:05 thank you very much for joining us today for this rescheduled session and thank you very much for your patience 0:11 i am delighted to host dr jonathan zacharin who study published in the journal of parkinson's disease offers a 0:17 new theory about the causes and potential treatments for parkinson's which of course has been a topic of big 0:23 interest to everyone who suffers from the condition i would like to start by reminding everyone that this session is for 0:29 information and education purposes only so if you're seeking medical advice diagnosis or treatment you should really 0:35 consult a medical professional um as you can figure out through the the 0:40 screen that you see there's a q a button at the bottom please enter your questions using that function there will be time for 0:46 questions at the end of this presentation so just a few words about us...