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Pille Taba, EAN 2018 – Major challenges and promising developments in Parkinson’s disease

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Published Online: Jun 29th 2018

Pille Taba (EAN Programme Committee and Teaching Course Sub-committee; MDS-ES Representative; Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of Tartu, Estonia) tells us what she considers major challenges and important developments in Parkinson’s disease.

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1. What do you consider the major challenges you face when treating patients with Parkinson’s disease? (0:12)
2. What have been the most significant recent developments in PD? (0:53)
3. What is genetic profiling teaching us about PD? (1:50)
4. How can an increased understanding of nonmotor symptoms help us in the early prediction/detection of PD? (2:45)
5. What are the most promising areas of research in this field? (3:44)

Speaker disclosure: Pille Taba 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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