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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825059003321

Autore

Langston J. William

Titolo

The case of the frozen addicts : how the solution of a medical mystery revolutionized the understanding of parkinson's disease / / by Dr. J. William Langston and Jon Palfreman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : IOS Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-61499-332-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

616.8/33

Soggetti

Parkinson's disease

Methylphenyltetrahydropyridine - Physiological effect

Designer drugs - Toxicology

Fetal tissues - Transplantation

Parkinson's disease - Animal models

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page""; ""Contents""; ""Authors' Note""; ""Prologue""; ""Part One""; ""All in the Mind""; ""Drugs by Design""; ""The Forgotten Case""; ""Brain Damage""; ""Research Wars""; ""A New Start for Parkinson's Disease""; ""Starting Over""; ""Fame and Misfortune""; ""Side Effects""; ""The Cause""; ""To Catch a Chemist""; ""Trail of Ironies""; ""New Treatments""; ""Part Two""; ""Mending the Brain""; ""Miracles""; ""Nemesis""; ""Doing the Unthinkable""; ""Embryonic Conflicts""; ""The Long Journey""; ""Out on a Limb""; ""The Turning Point""; ""Going Public""; ""Unending Quest""; ""Epilogue""

""Additional material for 2014 edition""""What's New in Parkinson's Disease Research?""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the authors""; ""Index""