Michael Weston M.D.

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• What Is Akathisia: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

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• Immunosuppressive Drugs for Multiple Sclerosis

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• Dogs Show Improvement After Gene Therapy for Muscular Dystrophy

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• Alzheimer’s is Not a Part of Normal Aging

  Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, a term for memory loss, which is serious enough to affect daily life. It affects three to four million people in the US. 10% of all the persons over 70-years-old have memory loss and in more than half, the cause is Alzheimer’s disease....