The case of the frozen addicts : how the solution of a medical mystery revolutionized the understanding of parkinson's disease / by Dr. J. William Langston and Jon Palfreman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langston, J. William, author.

Palfreman, Jon, author.

Series:

IOS Press Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parkinson's disease--Case studies.

Parkinson's disease.

Methylphenyltetrahydropyridine--Physiological effect.

Methylphenyltetrahydropyridine.

Designer drugs--Toxicology.

Designer drugs.

Fetal tissues--Transplantation--Case studies.

Fetal tissues.

Parkinson's disease--Animal models.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : IOS Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the summer of 1982, hospital emergency rooms in the San Francisco Bay Area were suddenly confronted with mysteriously "frozen" patients - young men and women who, though conscious, could neither move nor speak.Doctors were baffled, until neurologist J.

Contents:

""Title Page""; ""Contents""; ""Authors' Note""; ""Prologue""; ""Part One""; ""All in the Mind""; ""Drugs by Design""; ""The Forgotten Case""; ""Brain Damage""; ""Research Wars""; ""A New Start for Parkinson's Disease""; ""Starting Over""; ""Fame and Misfortune""; ""Side Effects""; ""The Cause""; ""To Catch a Chemist""; ""Trail of Ironies""; ""New Treatments""; ""Part Two""; ""Mending the Brain""; ""Miracles""; ""Nemesis""; ""Doing the Unthinkable""; ""Embryonic Conflicts""; ""The Long Journey""; ""Out on a Limb""; ""The Turning Point""; ""Going Public""; ""Unending Quest""; ""Epilogue""

""Additional material for 2014 edition""""What's New in Parkinson's Disease Research?""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the authors""; ""Index""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 4, 2014).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-61499-332-7

OCLC:

871531221