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- August 30, 2023
New research evidence by David Sulzer, PhD and Dritan Agalliu, PhD back the hypothesis that what triggers initial gastrointestinal changes in Parkinson’s could be a misdirected immune attack
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- August 18, 2023
New findings by Columbia researchers Dritan Agalliu, PhD, and David Sulzer, PhD, are showing that what triggers initial gastrointestinal changes in Parkinson’s could be a misdirected immune attack
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- April 25, 2023
Hiral Shah, MD, assistant professor of neurology at CUMC, along with colleagues, and patients support group created a book for Black patients & their families written by the true experts: themselves
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- May 13, 2022
Please join in welcoming Dr. Sarah O’Shea to the department.
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- March 30, 2022
“Getting genetic testing can be useful, but the information can be overwhelming or even misleading,” says neurologist Roy Alcalay, MD
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The Wall Street JournalMarch 28, 2021Neurologist Roy Alcalay says that in some ways doing an exam on video is better than in a clinic because patients who live far away or have difficulty with traveling don’t need to leave home.
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CUIMC NewsroomOctober 2, 2019Inside the brain, Parkinson’s disease is a selective assassin. The disease targets dopamine-producing neurons in a small region deep inside the brain known as the substantia nigra compacta (SNc).
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