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Nina Massey & Sophie Law

Parkinson's symptoms as brain scanners could help 'untreatable signs of disease'

Ultra-powerful brain scanners could offer hope for the treatment of previously-untreatable symptoms in Parkinson’s disease, a new study suggests.

Both Parkinson’s disease and a related disorder, progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), are progressive brain diseases that not only affect movement but also damage motivation and cognition.

Cognition refers to the mental processes that take place in the brain, including thinking, attention, language, learning, memory and perception.

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