19 Feb 2023

Professor Ronald Postuma: Dreams and Parkinson's

From Sunday Morning, 11:45 am on 19 February 2023

The number of people with Parkinson's Disease in New Zealand has been steadily increasing with about 1 in every 100 people over age 60 estimated to get it - and there is no cure ... just a managing of symptoms.
 
Could acting out your dreams foreshadow neurodegenerative disease?

Jim talks to Professor Ronald Postuma from McGill University in Montreal about what the research says.

close-up of the doctor hand pointing to the brain CT

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