Muhammad Ali and Young-Onset Idiopathic Parkinson Disease-The Missing Evidence

Michael S Okun; Helen S Mayberg; Mahlon R DeLong

doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2022.3584

Muhammad Ali and Young-Onset Idiopathic Parkinson Disease-The Missing Evidence

JAMA Neurol. 2023 Jan 1;80(1):5-6. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2022.3584.

Authors

Michael S Okun^{1

2}, Helen S Mayberg³, Mahlon R DeLong⁴

Affiliations

¹ Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of Florida, Gainesville.
² Associate Editor, JAMA Neurology.
³ Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.

PMID: 36279117
DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2022.3584

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Plain language summary

This Viewpoint discusses the degree to which Parkinson disease vs repetitive boxing-related head trauma contributed to Muhammad Ali’s progressive motor and cognitive impairments.

MeSH terms

Boxing*
Humans
Parkinson Disease* / complications