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| The patients in ''Awakenings'' were suffering from ''post-encephalitic Parkinsonism''. The encephalitis had occurred 50 years earlier and the infection was over. However it had left damage, causing their Parkinsonism. ] 06:06 Nov 2, 2002 (UTC) | The patients in ''Awakenings'' were suffering from ''post-encephalitic Parkinsonism''. The encephalitis had occurred 50 years earlier and the infection was over. However it had left damage, causing their Parkinsonism. ] 06:06 Nov 2, 2002 (UTC) | ||
| I think it is more than worthwhile to mention amphetamines as a possible cause. | |||
| (Minor comment reg. your last statement: the epidemic was in 1919-20 and the movie appears to play in the early fifties...which fits to the CV of Oliver Saks :-) | |||
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Awakenings deals with Parkinson's? I thought it was encephalitis. - Montréalais
The patients in Awakenings were suffering from post-encephalitic Parkinsonism. The encephalitis had occurred 50 years earlier and the infection was over. However it had left damage, causing their Parkinsonism. RTC 06:06 Nov 2, 2002 (UTC)
I think it is more than worthwhile to mention amphetamines as a possible cause.
(Minor comment reg. your last statement: the epidemic was in 1919-20 and the movie appears to play in the early fifties...which fits to the CV of Oliver Saks :-)