200 years ago, a British surgeon named James Parkinson described for the first time the symptoms of a disease that was later named after him. Since then treatment and understanding of this disorder have improved thanks to the doctors and researchers’ work. But the diagnosis is still a complex process and always requires the opinion of an experienced neurologist. Why is it so difficult to pinpoint the disease?
Professor Bas Bloem and colleagues from the Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen, the Netherland, visited Luxembourg on July 19 to present the concept of the Dutch ParkinsonNet that revolutionized the management of a chronic disease like Parkinson’s.
On Saturday, 21 May 2016, the NCER-PD Clinical Team travelled to Trier in Germany where the patient organisation “Jung und Parkinson” hosted their yearly “Movie Day” in a local cinema.
Last Friday, 8 July 2016, the Luxembourg Parkinson Study NCER-PD celebrated ist first birthday with a Summer Party, on the Belval Campus.
Read more: Luxembourg Parkinson Study celebrates first birthday
We are inviting all the participants of the NCER-PD programme, together with their families, to our summer party.
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