{"id":1444,"date":"2019-09-12T16:52:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T14:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demoucelle.sites-stag.agency\/uncategorized\/portrait-of-patrick-cras-professor-of-neurology\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T02:49:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:49:50","slug":"portrait-of-patrick-cras-professor-of-neurology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demoucelle.sites-stag.agency\/nl\/research\/researchers-testimonials\/portrait-of-patrick-cras-professor-of-neurology\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait of Patrick Cras, Professor of Neurology"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><mark style=\"background-color:#abb8c3\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Dit artikel is vertaald met behulp van Deepl. Onze excuses voor eventuele fouten of vreemd klinkende zinnen.<\/mark><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Naam&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Prof. Dr. Patrick Cras<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Job&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Professor of Neurology &#8211; Head of Service<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Department Chair of Neurology<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Neurology Department , UZ Antwerpen<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s your background?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am a neurologist at the University of Antwerp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What research are you doing in the field of Parkinson&#8217;s disease?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Research into early non-motoric symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where are you doing this research?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the University Hospital of Antwerp, but in collaboration with a large number of colleagues in other hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What has driven you to do research on Parkinson&#8217;s disease?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To better understand how Parkinson&#8217;s disease originates and evolves in order to enable early diagnosis and treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What are the latest research breakthroughs in the Parkinson&#8217;s domain?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Genetics has taught us a lot about the risk of developing the disease, its course and the effect of treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When do you think there will be a solution to Parkinson&#8217;s disease?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Curing the disease will still take a long time, but day after day we obtain better results in improving the efficiency of the treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You also participate to Run for Parkinson and you are a supporter of the Demoucelle Parkinson Charity, what motivates you?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I believe that exercise is one of the pillars of a successful treatment, so every step in the 20km of Brussels is a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is your favorite quote?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cChoose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life\u201d &#8211; Confucius<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portrait of Patrick Cras, Professor of Neurology &#038; Head of Service at the UZ Antwerp.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-researchers-testimonials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demoucelle.sites-stag.agency\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demoucelle.sites-stag.agency\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demoucelle.sites-stag.agency\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demoucelle.sites-stag.agency\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demoucelle.sites-stag.agency\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/demoucelle.sites-stag.agency\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4175,"href":"https:\/\/demoucelle.sites-stag.agency\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/4175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demoucelle.sites-stag.agency\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demoucelle.sites-stag.agency\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demoucelle.sites-stag.agency\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demoucelle.sites-stag.agency\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}