A contentious hypothesis about where and how Parkinson’s disease starts off is gaining ground as new studies provide clues in its support. Neuroanatomists Heiko Braak and Kelly Del Tredici, both at the University of Ulm in Germany, have described the dist
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When an anatomist first proposed that Parkinson’s disease begins in the gut, then slowly makes its way to the brain, his idea might have sounded like fiction...