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Traditionally, when you talk to people who have Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, they'll talk about how they're in five or six studies, and they've been sequenced by each study. That's just fat in the system. Just have a single data set that then you can share. You can make the entire system more efficient.

— Anne Wojcicki

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✓Similar Perspectives

Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

— Tan Le

Each form of Alzheimer's disease should perturb different brain networks and so influence the concentration of different proteins that can be measured in the blood.

— Leroy Hood

As a practicing neurologist, I can tell you first hand that working with Parkinson's patients offers clinical challenges. But from an emotional perspective, this disease can border on overwhelming.

— David Perlmutter

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

— Helen Mirren

Some genetic variants can be informative about one's risk for Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

— Anne Wojcicki

Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.

— Temple Grandin

I am particularly interested in Alzheimer's disease and have been for some time now.

— John O'Keefe

The most important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they're beginning to have with autism.

— Helen Mirren

Parkinson's is described as a progressive idiopathic neurodegenerative disorder, a brain disease that will worsen with time for which no cause has as yet been identified.

— David Perlmutter

✗Opposing Perspectives

You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.

— Tan Le