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The Case of the Frozen Addicts: How the Solution of a Medical Mystery Revolutionized the Understanding of Parkinson´s Disease
J. W Langston
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Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: MJN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 248 x 20. Weight in Grams: 530.
In the summer of 1982, hospital emergency rooms in the San Francisco Bay Area were suddenly confronted with mysteriously ofrozeno patients u young men and women who, though conscious, could neither move nor speak. Doctors were baffled, until neurologist J. William Langston, recognizing the symptoms of advanced ParkinsonAEs disease, administered L-dopa u the only known effective treatment u and ounfrozeo his patient. Dr. Langston determined that this patient and five others had all used the same tainted batch of synthetic heroin, inadvertently laced with a toxin that had destroyed an area of their brains essential to normal movement. This same ... Read more
In the summer of 1982, hospital emergency rooms in the San Francisco Bay Area were suddenly confronted with mysteriously ofrozeno patients u young men and women who, though conscious, could neither move nor speak. Doctors were baffled, until neurologist J. William Langston, recognizing the symptoms of advanced ParkinsonAEs disease, administered L-dopa u the only known effective treatment u and ounfrozeo his patient. Dr. Langston determined that this patient and five others had all used the same tainted batch of synthetic heroin, inadvertently laced with a toxin that had destroyed an area of their brains essential to normal movement. This same ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
IOS Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Amsterdam, United States
ISBN
9781614993315
SKU
V9781614993315
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99-29
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