"I can't play the piano. I can't sing. But other people can't, either. We're all limited."
-- Richard Gilson
When UCF Professor Emeritus Richard Gilson diagnosed himself with Parkinson's disease a dozen years ago, one of his first thoughts was: Here's a great research opportunity.
Someone else might have focused on his limitations, but Gilson set about improving treatment of the progressive neurological disease. He and an Orlando neurosurgeon, Dr. Nizam Razack, have invented a device that one day could better control the debilitating tremors that Parkinson's causes.
"I have an advantage because I know what it feels like," Gilson, 71, said at his home near Oviedo. "That gives me a real leg up on other researchers."
Read more at the Orlando Sentinel.