dr. parkinson, assistant professor and researcher at ucla, believes so.ast research has been focused on surface level characteristics, like are you of the same gender? are you of the same ethnicity? we wanted to bring imaging to see if your brains process the world in an exceptionally similar way, compared to people who aren't friends. >> reporter: using an mri machine, dr. parkinson monitored both of our brains as we watched random video clips. the goal was to see if the same regions of our brains lit up at the same points during the videos. if they did, it would prove the way we view and interact with the world is the same. how important is friendship? >> there's a lot of work showing that it is a fundamental need, like food, water, shelter. social connection is exactly the same way. >> reporter: the next day, we stop by dr. parkinson's office for the results. >> what you see on the screen here is basically a movie of the brain activity. when the colors are hotter, it means there is more blood flow to the area. brain was more active in that area. if you

and parkinson's disease therapies and approaches that offer hope. and here's your host dr costin like a tot. the movement walking one of the easiest things for the most of us patients with parkinson's disease have trouble doing it so they have to train it like here in the therapy got me what you can do about parkinson's disease is what i'm going to talk about today with dr events back here at the new logic a clinic in b. that's high step in the ability welcome good shape. parkinson's of the seas which can fortunately be treated well the fairy effect of drugs another thing which is equally important but maybe in. yes norman is that patient themself can also be affected for instance by exercising physical parkinson's is one of the most frequent neurological diseases in the world more than four million people suffer from it you cannot cure parkinson's disease but you can treat it with slowing down the decline and treating the symptoms. first i had problems maintaining my balance then my right arm stop swinging when i walked into. my fingers and hands became increasingly crowd

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parkinson's disease, crohn's disease. we know of people in terrible pain and all the epileptic children. we reckon there arei epileptic children. we reckon there are 1 million people who could benefit from this. drosis, and nausea and vomiting. it is intended that there was a bit the initial conditions. after developing the programme that would also be a rescheduling of cannabis... michael collins joins us, deputy director at the drug policy alliances of this at united states, thank you for speaking to our british audience, we have a british parliamentarian and also dr mair n ryan who advises the irish government on the introduction of additional cannabis legislation. in the us, michael, the picture is mixed in terms of all the different states and all the legislation. briefly, who allows what and where? thank you for having me on. most of the country now has some form of cannabis legalisation, some states have limited cannabis laws thatjust involve cbbc which is often used with children with epilepsy. some have more comprehensive medical cannabis laws, that is around 30 states. and then you have nine states. and then you have nine states who have fully legalised cannabis for what we call adult