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Hope vs. Hype I: Spreading alpha-synuclein explains cognitive deficits in Parkinson disease
Kelly A Mills1, Oliver Phillips2, Abhimanyu Mahajan3
1Johns Hopkins Department of Neurology, Baltimore, MD600 N. Wolfe Street, Meyer 6-181D, 21287, United States.
Abstract:
The Parkinson Study Group (PSG) gathered North American experts in Parkinson disease during the 9th Annual Symposium on "Shaping the Management of Parkinson Disease: Debating Current Controversies". Debaters were tasked with agree or disagree positions to a particular prompt. This is the first in three-part series of "Hype vs. Hope" debates involving current trends and advances in Parkinson disease. With the prompt of "Spreading alpha-synuclein explains cognitive deficits in Parkinson disease," Dr. Kelly Mills, MD, MHS was tasked with the "agree" stance and Dr. Abhimanyu Mahajan, MD, MHS was tasked with the "disagree" stance. The following point-of-view article is an adaptation of this debate.
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