Hiral Shah, MD, assistant professor of neurology at CUMC, along with colleagues, and patients support group created a book for Black patients & their families written by the true experts: themselves
Neurologist Roy Alcalay says that in some ways doing an exam on video is better than in a clinic because patients who live far away or have difficulty with traveling don’t need to leave home.
Inside the brain, Parkinson’s disease is a selective assassin. The disease targets dopamine-producing neurons in a small region deep inside the brain known as the substantia nigra compacta (SNc).