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Parkinson Disease

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Parkinson disease (PD) is the second commonest neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer disease and the prototype akinetic-rigid (hypokinetic) movement disorder. The core lesion is progressive loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) with intracytoplasmic Lewy bodies (aggregated alpha-synuclein). For NEET PG, the highest-yield themes are the TRAP tetrad, the pathology (Lewy body, al

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