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Long-form articles written by a physician living with Parkinson's disease — pharmacology and neuroanatomy, retold from the body's point of view. These are educational articles; decisions about your own medication belong with your treating clinician.
Pharmacology Through My Own Body
A doctor-patient relearns pharmacology — not as plasma graphs in a textbook, but as the daily curve a person with Parkinson’s disease feels in the body.
- Pharmacology Through My Own Body, Part 1 — How Does a Drug Move Through the Body?
From the moment a pill is swallowed until its effect appears and fades again — pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics explained in the language of what a person with Parkinson's disease actually feels.
- Pharmacology Through My Own Body, Part 2 — Learning Levodopa with the Body
Why does the same levodopa work quickly one day and slowly the next? Delayed ON, incomplete ON, ON failure, and wearing-off, explained through the body's actual curve.
Neuroanatomy Through the Body
Why does the body stop, and move again? Starting from lived experience — freezing, stairs, visual lines — and following the motor circuits.
- Neuroanatomy Through the Body — Preface
Relearning neuroanatomy through Parkinson's disease. Instead of memorizing the names of structures, we start from lived experience and follow the circuits to ask why the body stops — and moves again.
- Neuroanatomy Through the Body, Part 1 — What It Means to Move
Movement is not made by muscle strength alone. Starting from real Parkinson's experience, this article explains how the motor cortex, basal ganglia, cerebellum, brainstem, and spinal cord create and initiate movement together.
- Neuroanatomy Through the Body, Part 2 — The Basal Ganglia, the System That Selects Movement
Strength remains — so why is the first step hard, and why do movements shrink? Following the basal ganglia motor circuit of caudate, putamen, globus pallidus, subthalamic nucleus, substantia nigra, and thalamus, starting from real Parkinson's experience.