Editorials

Original thoughts and essays from PCLA's vibrant writing community.

Simon Says

Simon Gornick writes this monthly column for PCLA to express his viewpoints as a professional screen writer, content writer, and a YOPD with tons of experience.
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Simon Says...Trial and Error

One thing you get used to very fast after you’ve been diagnosed with PD, and that’s how often you’ll hear about a drug or device trial that’s going to be a “game changer."
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Simon Says...Let Go

If you’re new to the Parkinson’s club and haven’t already figured it out, once PD has you in its kung fu grip, after your “honeymoon” period of being less symptomatic, it never lets go.
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Simon Says...Sinemet!

There is always a torrent of new therapies in Parkinson’s research, but a disproportionate number of them are closely related to the first major therapy, Levodopa, which profoundly changed Parkinson's treatment over fifty years ago.

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