Neuro Note #3
For this Neuro Note I chose to watch the movie Love and Other Drugs. The movie is centered around the romantic relationship of Jamie Randall, a womanizing drug rep, and Maggie Murdock, who has early onset Parkinson's disease. They meet while he is shadowing a doctor and Maggie is coming in for a checkup. She tells the doctor how it was hard to diagnose her at such an early age and it is later revealed that she has stage 1 parkinsons disease. Her doctors first thought it was an essential tremor, then wilson's disease, then huntingtons, syphilis, a brain tumor, and then finally she was diagnosed with stage 1 parkinsons. Jamie gets Maggie's number from the receptionist and they go on a date, where we see Maggie moving her hand uncontrollably. Jamie asks her if she has a resting tremor and asks if it comes and goes. She ignores him and shrugs it off. After this they begin a sexual relationship. Jamie revels to Maggie that he has a diagnosis of attention deficit disorde...