The William Burroughs Experiment: A conversation with A.J.Lees and Mike Zandi. Hanging out with the molecules. A guide to neurology, discovery, and the Parkinson's Disease. 11th April is World Parkinson's Day and the anniversary of James Parkinson's birth. It is also 200 years since he published his essay on the shaking palsy. Watch our film about world authority on PD Professor Andrew Lees, by award winning documentary maker Ben Crowe, in which Professor Lees calls for a more creative approach to research. The film puts a spotlight on William Gowers and the process of neurology. Gowers (1845-1915) was a key figure in establishing the National Hospital as the single most important institution in the field of epilepsy in the last three decades of the nineteenth century.
Ben Crowe
Director, Writer
Andrew John Lees
Writer

Andrew John Lees
Professor of Neurology
Michael Zandi
Neurologist

William Gowers
Neurologist (archive footage)
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Trainwreck: The Real Project X59%
A Plastic Ocean75%
McQueen74%
The Cheshire Murders65%
Report61%
Extremis69%
Hawking76%
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button69%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Directed by John Ford70%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Public Speaking70%
Black Sheep72%
The Class of ‘9271%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
Maternal Instinct71%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%