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A new trial in South Australia hopes to diagnose Parkinson's disease earlier by checking dopamine levels in the brain

More than 100,000 Australians are living with Parkinson's disease, a condition that impacts movement, learning and behaviour.

Researchers understand the disease is linked to low dopamine levels in the brain and plan to use that knowledge in a nation-first data-collection trial.

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