Northwestern University: Newly Discovered Trigger of Parkinson's Upends Common Beliefs
September 16, 2023
September 16, 2023
CHICAGO, Illinois, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- Northwestern University issued the following news release:
A new Northwestern Medicine study challenges a common belief in what triggers Parkinson's disease.
Degeneration of dopaminergic neurons is widely accepted as the first event that leads to Parkinson's. But the new study suggests that a dysfunction in the neuron's synapses -- the tiny gap across which a neuron can send an impulse to another neuron -- leads to . . .
A new Northwestern Medicine study challenges a common belief in what triggers Parkinson's disease.
Degeneration of dopaminergic neurons is widely accepted as the first event that leads to Parkinson's. But the new study suggests that a dysfunction in the neuron's synapses -- the tiny gap across which a neuron can send an impulse to another neuron -- leads to . . .