As we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Dr. James Parkinson's groundbreaking essay of "The Shaking Palsy", there seems to be a flurry of announcements of possible breakthroughs in diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson's.  Eight years ago, when I was first diagnosed with Parkinson's, the prevailing theories all stated that PD was a disease that started with …

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