MRI scans show effects of Parkinson’s drug (AUDIO)

WashU Medicine

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Neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have used a new brain imaging technique to determine that an investigational parkinson’s disease drug is affecting blood flow in several key brain structures. the finding could mean both that this drug may help alleviate some Parkinson's symptoms and that the brain imaging technique may be able to speed the development of drugs designed to influence activity in the brain.

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