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Kinesia paradoxa in Parkinson’s Disease reveals that capability is not always lost, only inaccessible.

When conscious control falters, emotion or instinct can reawaken dormant pathways.

We all harbor hidden pathways and potential. We need to unlock what has always been there.

A mouse, a maze, and a piece of cheese. Source: dzm1try/iStock

I am a neurologist specializing in Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders. Studying these conditions offers a rare window into how the subconscious motor system works and reveals the brain’s mysterious capacity for both failure and astonishing resilience .

During my third-year clinical rotation in medical school, an elderly man in a wheelchair arrived at the clinic. His face was expressionless, his voice soft, and his hands tremb

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