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What is progressive supranuclear palsy?

Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with neurologist Anne-Marie Wills about progressive supranuclear palsy, the rare progressive neurodegenerative disorder that led to the death this week of civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson.

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