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# # # # It is exciting when new research comes along that reframes how we might look at a problem. New research published this week has done just that for Parkinson’s. Researchers have analysed vast amounts of brain imaging data and found that it points towards a hyperconnectivity between Parkinson’s associated structures within the brain. They also found that current treatment approaches help to reduce this hyperconnectivity. Using this data, the researchers conducted a clinical trial that further supports their paradigm shifting results. In today’s post, we will discuss what exactly they have discovered, why it is important, and how it could change how we view Parkinson’s. # # # # |
Source: Wikipedia
This is a photo of a young Wilder Graves Penfield.
He was 22 years old when this photo was taken in 1913. Playing/coaching football at Princeton, with a truly remarkable life still ahead of him.
Remarkable how?
Remarkable as in ‘eventful’.
For example, in 1915 he obtained a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, where he studied neuropathology with the greats like Sir Charles Scott Sherrington and William Osler, before he got pulled into World War I and went to France to serve as a dresser in a military hospital. He was wounded however when the boat he was aboard was torpedoed, and after recovering from his injuries he married his wife. He began studying medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, attaining his degree in 1918. All of that in just three years!
But his life was also remarkable in what he achieved in his research.
What did he do in research?
The Science of Parkinson's 