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The progression of pathology in Parkinson's disease.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Jan 2010
Halliday Glenda Margaret, McCann Heather
Abstract excerpt
To identify the progression of pathology over the entire course of Parkinson's disease, we longitudinally followed a clinical cohort to autopsy and identified three clinicopathological phenotypes that progress at different rates. Typical Parkinson's disease has an initial rapid loss of midbrain dopamine neurons with a slow progression of Lewy body infiltration into the brain (over decades). Dementia intervenes...
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