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K Ray Chaudhuri, EAN 2018 – Societal burden and early symptoms of Parkinson’s disease

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Published Online: Jul 5th 2018

K Ray Chaudhuri (Professor of Movement Disorders, Neuroscience Research and Development, King’s College; Director, King’s Parkinson’s Centre, King’s College Hospital, London, UK) considers the major societal burden of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and what early symptoms doctors should be on the lookout for to improve early detection.

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1. Could you tell us a little about the societal burden of PD? (0:12)
2. What early symptoms of PD should doctors be looking for? (1:26)
3. How else can we improve the early detection of PD? (2:57)

Speaker disclosure: K Ray Chaudhuri has nothing to disclose in relation to this video interview.

Filmed at the 4th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN), Lisbon, Portugal, June 2018.

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