:37:02
- slips through the tightened silence
of the shoulders, -
:37:06
- reaches the heart, and dies. "
:37:16
Have you heard of a drug called L-dopa?
It is a synthetic dopamine.
:37:21
Yes, for Parkinson's patients...
:37:25
Why?
:37:31
Excuse me, sorry!
:37:36
100 years would pass
before modern neuropathology -
:37:39
- would allow us to locate the damage
in the Parkinsonian brain.
:37:47
With our development of the drug L-dopa,
we can for the first time promise -
:37:53
- the Parkinsonian patient
a more normal life by administering L...
:38:03
I am very curious about this drug.
Have you come across anyone who...
:38:09
- Excuse me, Dr...
- Sayer.
:38:13
Have you come across
any patients with encephalitis?
:38:17
After I am through, Dr. Sayer.
If you would not mind.
:38:25
As I was saying...
by administering L-dopa.
:38:34
Do you think an
extreme Parkinsonian tremor -
:38:37
- would appear as no tremor at all?
:38:44
- Are you talking to me?
- Oh, yes.
:38:49
Imagine you accelerated a hand tremor
to the point of immobility.
:38:55
Imagine a patient with all the
Parkinson symptoms accelerated.
:38:59
The hand tremor, the head bobbing,
quickening of speech.