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Parkinson disease in 2017

Changing views after 200 years of Parkinson disease

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200 years after James Parkinson's An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, 2017 has seen important advances that are driving a shift towards a broader and more holistic understanding of Parkinson disease aetiology and progression. This shift might finally pave the way to entirely novel and more effective prevention and management strategies.

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Figure 1: Precision medicine in Parkinson disease.

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Maetzler, W., Berg, D. Changing views after 200 years of Parkinson disease. Nat Rev Neurol 14, 70–72 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneurol.2017.183

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