Aisha I Abdullah PhD,  —

A project investigating a complex formed by two key proteins involved in Parkinson’s disease development has received nearly $150,000 in funding from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF). The research team behind the project believes the interaction between these two proteins — LIMP-2…

Tremor in Parkinson’s patients affects how well levodopa treatment, via dopamine production, affects learning skills in these people — supporting evidence of a link between tremor and cognition, a study found. Specifically, its researchers showed that levodopa-treated patients without tremor had better reinforced learning skills (learning through rewards,…