Word: parkinsonian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victims' futures brightened immeasurably with the development of an effective drug treatment in 1967 by Dr. George C. Cotzias of the Brookhaven (L.I.) National Laboratory. The drug, L-Dopa, counters the major chemical defect in Parkinsonian brains, which is a deficiency of dopamine, a natural body chemical essential to normal nerve activity. Thousands of Americans today are leading much better lives than would be possible without the treatment. But there should be many fewer such patients in the future-provided, of course, that Poskanzer wins...