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Do you know someone who has Parkinson’s disease?
It is often characterized by trembling hands, but actually has many more aspects.
Elisa Percolla is a scientific researcher at the institute of Cognitive Science in Osnabrück. She wrote her master thesis on Parkinson’s disease and studied the brains of patients with EEG.
During the interview Elisa describes her way into the field of cognitive science and how the broadness of the field can sometimes go hand in hand with a feeling of inaccuracy since you can never be equally good at each sub-discipline. She proceeds to explain that we should sometimes be a little more lenient with ourselves.
Listen to this episode to learn how symptoms of Parkinson’s disease show, what underlying mechanisms are, and what the current state of research in treatment is!
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