Encephalitis lethargica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Encephalitis lethargica (EL) or von Economo disease is an atypical form of encephalitis. Also known as "sleepy sickness" or as "sleeping sickness" (though different from the sleeping sickness trans...
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A collection of damn interesting things. ... One very common problem to befall people recovering from the sleeping sickness was Postencephalitic Parkinson’s disease. This caused life-long symptoms such as slowness, tremors, speech problems, and abnormal muscle movement.
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Barbeau's comments on L-DOPA's impact on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis were of ... given L-DOPA, this drug is not used as medication for this disorder. ... Also known as sleeping sickness or sleepy sickness, those who survived the ...
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The drug is most famous for its' use by Oliver Sacks in 1969 who used the drug to treat people with sleeping sickness that hadn't been able to initiate movement for some 50 years. The drug had a remarkable effect of ... Not Daisy; Not Daisy; Are we here now?; I am a horror; This is an old one; Not Daisy; L Dopa fixed me,
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Unknown to most of us nowadays, between 1916 and 1927 there was a world-wide epidemic of encephalitis lethargica or "sleeping sickness". ... This movie takes place in 1969, and is based on the work of Dr. Oliver Sacks. He postured that L-DOPA, which was used to treat victims of Parkinson's disease at that time,
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Image by ezioman ... I have lived a very priveleged life. One of the great priveleges of it is that I have usually been surrounded by very gifted people. I’m not sure why this is. My friend Robert says it’s because I don’t compete – it’s true that I don’t, I’m not sure if this is ... What do you think? ...
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Parkinson's disease, had turned many patients into motionless "statues." In March 1969, neurologist Oliver; Sacks began to prescribe L-dopa, a drug used to treat; Parkinson's disease, to sleeping sickness patients.
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The book recounted his work with a group of New York City hospital patients who had been comatose for as long as 40 years, victims of a sleeping-sickness epidemic that swept the world from 1916 to 1927. By administering L-dopa, a drug used to treat Parkinson's disease, Sacks was able to rouse his elderly charges.
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Glial cells to the rescue; In contrast, many studies have used L-dopa with DA neurons combined with (“co cultured with”) glial/astrocyte cells.
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