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Parkinson’s Disease and Cognitive Impairment

August 17, 2010 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 2 Comments

We all know the standards symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (some 500,000 in the US alone) patients- tremors, slow motion, etc. But, most of us fail to recognize these patients also suffer from cognitive impairment. They don’t lose their memory- they just can’t make decisions, plan, or adequately control their emotions

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Stem Cell Research to Treat Parkinson’s Disease

July 26, 2010 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 11 Comments

Our skin, part of the integumentary system, is the human’s largest organ. This system comprises some 12 to 16% of our total body weight. There are four or five layers of skin all over our body- and, one of the layers in both types of skin is the stratum germinativum- a layer of stem cells.

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