Word: parkinson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ross Roy, 85, founder and chairman of the thriving Detroit-based advertising agency (1982 billings: $222 million) that bears his name, who revolutionized auto ad-sales techniques by introducing comparison studies for Dodge in the mid-1920s, and then applied the strategy to a variety of other products; of Parkinson's disease; in Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich...
DIED. Howard Dietz, 86, Hollywood songwriter who penned the lyrics to such standards as Dancing in the Dark, You and the Night and the Music and Louisiana Hayride; of Parkinson's disease; in New York City. A public relations executive who invented Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Leo the Lion trademark and is said to have coined Greta Garbo's line "I want to be alone," Dietz was amazingly prolific (more than 500 songs) and quick, whipping up That's Entertainment in 30 minutes with his longtime collaborator Arthur Schwartz. One of show business's genuine...
...same conclusion has been reached by researchers who have regenerated nerve fibers in other parts of animals' brains as well as in their spinal cords. At Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., for instance, Neuroscientist William Freed has treated rats with fetal cell implants to relieve symptoms resembling Parkinson's disease in humans. The implanted cells are capable of producing dopamine, a vital brain chemical lacking in the afflicted rats and in Parkinson's patients. Such techniques used with humans, some researchers believe, may lead to a cure for Parkinson's disease within five...
Researchers, hoping to avoid controversy, are looking for alternatives to fetal tissues. In the case of Parkinson's disease, says Freed, it may be possible to transplant dopamine-secreting cells taken from the patient's own adrenal gland. Other approaches were discussed at a conference on fetal cell research last month in Brookline, Mass. Among them: the possibility of altering monkey fetal cells for use in humans. Ultimately, as researchers become able to identify the chemicals that give fetal cells their regenerative powers, they may find ways to synthesize these substances or to develop cell cultures that produce...
...that a patient has the disorder is to examine the brain after death. Thus, the diagnosis must be approximated by a careful process of elimination. Through CAT scanning and other tests, the physician gradually determines that the patient has not suffered a series of small strokes, does not have Parkinson's disease, a brain tumor, depression, an adverse drug reaction or any other possible cause of dementia. If all tests are negative, AD is diagnosed by default. This conclusion may be further verified with psychological tests...