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SCIENCE STUDIO: Parkinson's Disease

  In a rebroadcast from Feb. 13. 2010, Keith talks with neuroscientist Curt Freed, Professor of Medicine & Pharmacology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.  Freed talks about Parkinson's Disease and about a rare and controversial procedure used to treat it involving the direct injection into the brain of cells from an aborted fetus.  He also talks about the importance of dopamine, and...find out what humans have in common with jellyfish.  http://www.cafescicolorado.org/Freed.htm

Aired Aug. 25, 2013.

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