Event Description
Dr Mihalis Doumas : Quality of life, dance, and working with the Parkinson's community in Northern Ireland.
Dr Mihalis Doumas will first talk about the wide range of movement and non-movement related symptoms experienced by people living with Parkinson's disease. Then, he will explain ways to improve quality of life for people with this condition, including medication and physical activity, for example dance!
FILM: Awakenings (1990)
Dr. Sayer is a pioneering neurologist who wants to take a risk and give his patients who suffer from encephalitis a drug used for Parkinson's Disease. He tries it out on one man who miraculously wakes from his perpetual catatonic state.
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