"Seven million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson's-- with sixty thousand new cases diagnosed each year …
In the American "non-fiction" tradition, but one of the better examples of that style. The author is writing from the perspective of someone that both has been diagnosed with Parkinson and also has experience writing. That makes it a highly readable book, but never just settles for scratching the surface and enters the topic with a seriousness only a person with the diagnose themself would bring. A very hopeful book also, in spite of the tremendously complex disease, but this is part of the point. And having read it, I do find a lot of hope. The book was especially interesting in the chapters that showed how our understanding of Parkinson and some other neurodegenerative diseases are getting upturned these years, where diagnosis often happens when the disease has progressed for many years, sometimes decades. A new frontier of research is trying to make it possible to catch Parkinson and …
In the American "non-fiction" tradition, but one of the better examples of that style. The author is writing from the perspective of someone that both has been diagnosed with Parkinson and also has experience writing. That makes it a highly readable book, but never just settles for scratching the surface and enters the topic with a seriousness only a person with the diagnose themself would bring. A very hopeful book also, in spite of the tremendously complex disease, but this is part of the point. And having read it, I do find a lot of hope. The book was especially interesting in the chapters that showed how our understanding of Parkinson and some other neurodegenerative diseases are getting upturned these years, where diagnosis often happens when the disease has progressed for many years, sometimes decades. A new frontier of research is trying to make it possible to catch Parkinson and similar diseases way earlier when no one suspects anything.
Your Very Own Consciousness Can Interact With the Whole Universe, Scientists Believe
A recent experiment suggests the brain is not too warm or wet for consciousness to exist as a quantum wave that connects with the rest of the universe. hen people talk about consciousness, or the mind, it’s always a bit nebulous.