All posts by Anders M. Leines

I work as a Video Journalist at Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. In 2010 I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. That was when I embarked on a mission to change the image in many people’s mind of who the Parkinson patient is. This is not just an old man’s disease.
Fun Films

Have a laugh at Parkinson´s

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Not pleased with your Parkinson`s Disease? In Norway, take advantage of our return policy on diseases! 

Before James Parkinson there was no Parkinsons Disease, right? He created it. Before him nobody had even heard about Parkinson`s Disease. But what if we could change history? Michael James Fox travels back to the year 1817 to convince James Parkinson not to invent the terrible disease, only to discover that agent 007 James Bond is already there on the same mission. Michel J. Fox joins the two but Mr. Parkinson seems bent on publishing his book “An Essay on the shaking palsy” and thereby inventing the disease. Can the two of them rid the world of Parkinson`s? This is a rather weird silent film that we made just for fun. All actors have Parkinson`s.
Photography

“This is Parkinson`s” – The photos that changed the image

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“This is Parkinson`s”  Facebook page

“This is Parkinsons” at Flickr.com

The images played crucial role when Norwegian health authorities decided to implement the Dutch concept “ParkinsonNet” in our healthcare system.

“This is Parkinson´s” challenges the 140 years old  image of the stooped Parkinson`s disease patient. It is an image Thet no longer serves the patient community,  inspire the scientific or challenge the medical and political. We need real patients to stand forth, with pride. The images have been on display in cities across Europe and the US.

Official trailer for “This is Parkinsons”.

Disease Modification

My Parkinson`s Journey

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What do you do when suddenly you are diagnosed with an incurable progressive disease?  I did everything. This film is the story about my first six years with Parkinson´s Disease, 2010 to 2015. “Nothing we have done has slowed the progression”,  Dr. Stanley Fahn says in the film, so I tried almost everything. Some were silly and some were not, but what can you do? The program was produced for NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) by me and on the night it aired it had an audience of 700 000 viewers out of a population of 5 million!

https://vimeo.com/218176369/255f1d3c9f

Original version without english subtitles : http://tv.nrk.no/serie/puls/mdhp12000614/03-02-2014#t=0s