$3.5 million grant given.Researchers to study Parkinson's THE JEWISH HOME & HOSPITAL, a geriatric health care and rehabilitation rehabilitation: see physical therapy. institution in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , has received a grant of $3.5 million from The Leir Charitable Trusts and the Ridgefield Foundation to study the sequence of clinical and brain changes in the early stages of Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease or Parkinsonism, degenerative brain disorder first described by the English surgeon James Parkinson in 1817. When there is no known cause, the disease usually appears after age 40 and is referred to as Parkinson's disease. . The Home will conduct the study in conjunction with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine is a medical school found in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. . Leslie S. Libow, M.D., chief of medical services and senior vice president for medical affairs at The Jewish Home & Hospital, and C. Warren Olanow, M.D., professor and chairman of the Department of Neurology at Mt. Sinai, will co-lead the study. The study will focus on the coincidence of Alzheimer's-like dementia in these patients as well as risk factors that contribute to Parkinson's disease. |
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