The MPTP Story

The MPTP Story

Dr. Langston is the Scientific Director, Chief Scientific Officer and Founder of the Parkinson’s Institute in Sunnyvale, California. A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Medicine, he served as faculty at Stanford University Medical School and Chairman of Neurology at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California before founding the Parkinson’s Institute. He gained inte...

Editor's Note/Man, the Story-Telling Animal

Physiology of MPTP tremor.

Rhesus and vervet monkeys respond differently to treatment with 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine hydrochloride neurotoxin (MPTP). Both species develop akinesia, rigidity, and severe postural instability. However, rhesus monkeys only develop infrequent, short episodes of high-frequency tremor, whereas vervet monkeys have many prolonged episodes of low-frequency tremor. After MPTP tre...

the archetype of mother: a never-ending story retold by poe

investigation the archetype of mother can help the reader to understand poes works, especially his fiction, better, if not fully. motivated by internal and external drives to get into the universe in its manifold form poe was impelled to art and, from various modes of art, to symbolism. how much was poe successful to produce works of art has been a matter of dispute among critics. however, ther...

The Decline of Community in Iran: A chronological story

The empirical data show a fundamental transformation in the fabric of the Iranian society in recent decades. The essence of this transformation is what we have called the “decline of community’, also labelled as the ‘depletion of social capital’, referring to the loss of social ties and the erosion of moral life which hold members of society together. In this article, drawing on a large volume ...