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Researchers at the University of Montreal have found that the brain cells most at risk in Parkinson's Disease consume unusually high amounts of energy, gradually exhausting and killing themselves.

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Jeronimo Sanz <a target="_blank"href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY 2.0</a> <a target="_blank"href="https://flic.kr/p/joy44a">https://flic.kr/p/joy44a</a>

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