Faculty Sound Bite…
“It becomes obvious, just absolutely obvious, when you see the folks with disease that this isn’t just a disease of dopamine; it isn’t just a disease of the brain. We see it in the gut. We see it in the skin. We see it in multiple organs. So, it is super important that we ask the why: Why does it start? Why does it progress? Why does it spread?”
— Michael S. Okun, M.D., director of the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at UF Health and a professor in the Department of Neurology, discussing the importance of understanding Parkinson’s disease with Sanjay Gupta of CNN, Dec. 9