In a clinical trial conducted in Russia, dimebon improved the ability of patients with Alzheimer's disease on a standardized test used to measure disease severity.

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The severity of the laboratory test was equivalent to an oblique collision with the rocky surface of the Earth - a comet coming in at an angle of less than 25 degrees from the horizon, rather than head on (perpendicular to the Earth's surface).

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One of Grove's frustrations is the standard test neurologists use to measure a patient's level of severity of Parkinson's.

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