A voice therapy program called SPEAK OUT!, developed by the Parkinson Voice Project, can help Parkinson’s disease patients…
Articles by Alice Melão
Approximately 1.2 million people in the United States are predicted to have Parkinson’s disease by the year 2030, according to…
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) was seen to slow the progression of “rest tremors” in patients with early-stage Parkinson’s disease,…
Use of a hypertension treatment called Dynacirc (isradipine) — a calcium channel blocker — eased the type of nerve cell…
A new software can predict with an accuracy of 96 percent the form of Parkinson’s disease and future symptoms…
A new device that can increase the production of viable neural stem cells may change the landscape of neural stem…
More than half of Parkinson’s patients who have been treated with a dopamine agonist may develop impulse control disorders over time,…
Very tiny particles of cerium oxide — a compound with antioxidant effects — can prevent the toxic effects of alpha-synuclein…
Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital researchers have found that a family of fat molecules, called ceramides, are key…
Viruses that infect bacteria, known as bacteriophages, may contribute to the onset and progression of Parkinson’s disease by unsettling the…