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Prof. Dr. Per Borghammer, MD, PhD, DMSc

Department of Nuclear Medicine & PET, Aarhus University Hospital

Professor Dr. Per Borghammer explains the brain-first vs body-first model of Parkinson’s disease, which consists of two distinct pathways of disease progression starting from the gut, or nose. Learn how these findings could potentially pave the way for personalized medicine and new treatments to stop Parkinson’s disease in its tracks.

Learn how these findings could potentially pave the way for personalized medicine and new treatments to stop Parkinson’s disease in its tracks.

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