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Alice S Chen-Plotkin

Sep 8, 2026

2:22
But before that, you know, stopping the progression, reversing it and then the cure.
2:27
Sure, sure, sure.
2:28
So I got into Parkinson's disease because I trained as a neurologist and I was very interested in the brain.
2:40
And I felt like the diseases of the brain are different from the diseases of the other parts of the body, right? Because if your knee doesn't work, you can get it replaced.
2:51
You So if your brain starts to have problems, that really erodes at your sense of self.
2:56
So it was really important to me when I was in my medical training that these diseases spoke to me more.
3:05
And then over time, I started to realize that what we really need for most of the brain diseases is things to slow them down or stop them.

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