Have you or someone close to you just been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease? Well, chances the disease has been progressing quietly but insidiously for more than 10 years, new research shows. Carried out at the Université de Montréal and published in the journal Nature Communications, the research sheds new light on the surprising resilience of the brain during the asymptomatic period of Parkinson's. In their study, a team led by UdeM neuroscientist Louis-Éric Trudeau demonstrated that movement circuits in the brains of mice are insensitive to an almost total loss of active secretion of this chemical messenger.

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