Monday, September 30, 2013

Parkinson's patients are more mistrustful and more willing to take risks than healthy people

Parkinson's patients seem to have more difficulties than healthy people to trust others. This is demonstrated by a current study, which was presented at the 21st World Congress of Neurology in Vienna. Presently, more than 8,000 experts are discussing the latest developments in this specialty field. "Particularly those brain areas that regulate trust behaviour are affected by the disease: the basal ganglia of the cerebrum, the frontal cortex and the limbic system...

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