Do you ever feel like screaming? On the inside, I scream fairly often. Usually, the theme is “You don’t understand!” and it’s in conjunction with some incident where it’s very clear that 1) the person doesn’t know me at all, and 2) all they can see is a shaky, slow,…
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There’s a moment in every close basketball game that feels almost supernatural. The clock is ticking down, a desperate shot goes up, and in the space of a heartbeat, the whole arena goes silent. The ball is in the air. Will it go in? That thin slice of time —…
Vincere Biosciences won a $5 million grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) to advance development of USP30 small molecule inhibitors, its candidate therapy aimed at slowing or halting Parkinson’s disease progression. The grant, provided through MJFF’s Therapeutics Pipeline Program, will…
A little over 15 years ago, I started a new “job.” There was no interview, and the specific duties and time frame were unclear. Although I was probably not a very likely candidate, the job was mine, whether I liked it or not. What I knew about the job before…
The American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA) has announced three recipients of its inaugural Bridge Funding Awards, a program designed to support promising Parkinson’s disease research when unexpected gaps in funding occur. The awards were open specifically to researchers APDA has funded within the…
I have long been fascinated by the idea of being “in flow.” Many of us have experienced a state of flow without realizing it, or even knowing what it is. Flow state was first identified and studied by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, one of the founders of positive psychology. So what…
Becoming educated and informed about Parkinson’s is a good first step. Here you’ll find general information about the disease, including diagnosis, symptoms, and causes.
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