Link between head
injury and Parkinson’s Disease:
At “Brain Mind &
Life” the relationship between head injury and the onset of Parkinson’s Disease
has long been discussed and evaluated, this month our attention was focused on
the risk for people with more severe head injury as showed in a recent study
(see http://www.mayoclinic.org/news2003-av/vnrheadinjury051903/drbower1.mov)
directed by James Bower at Mayo
Clinic.
The work, published in
the last May 20 issue of Neurology, shows strong evidences for the link, yet even
if it shows the increased risk, it doesn’t show causality. The article
references are also interesting for a debate on methods.