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A research team at The Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra is planning to collect information on subtleties like eye movement and posture sway in Parkinson’s patients, then use machine learning technology to spot indicators of how Parkinson’s disease (PD) might progress in individuals diagnosed with the neuromuscular disorder. Dr. Deborah Apthorp of…

The World Federation of Neurology (WFN) has designated July 22 as annual World Brain Day on which the WFN’s 119 national member groups will coordinate to raise awareness of brain health. For 2016, the campaign is focusing especially on “Brain Health and the Aging Population: The Aging Brain,”…

NoTremor, a Parkinson’s disease research project funded by the European Union, is working on developing patient specific computational models of the brain and neuromuscular systems that can be used to improve the quality of Parkinsons disease (PD) analysis and progression monitoring. In particular, the NoTremor team of researchers aims…

An inexpensive, portable biosensor device developed by researchers at the National Nanotechnology Laboratory (LNNano) in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, has proven capable of detecting molecules associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases,  and certain types of cancer. Essentially a single-layer organic nanometer-scale transistor on a…

Trequant, Inc., a wearable device startup, is launching a Kickstarter campaign to raise money to market and further develop its tremor quantifying device. The Trequant wearable is designed to appear and feel like a normal analog watch, but contains advanced sensors that monitor the extremity tremors common to movement disorders like Parkinson’s disease…

A completely new preclinical technique developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden involves analysis of tissue from patients to show exactly what happens in Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients who have nerve function restored as a result of nerve cell transplants. The scientists have also identified the reason why…

An innovative new motion monitoring tool that resembles a wristwatch could soon improve quality of life and treatment effectiveness for people with Parkinson’s disease by better informing the neurologists who are treating them. A research team at Cedars-Sinai medical center in Los Angeles, California, is one…

Pfizer Inc. and International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) announced a collaborative research project to advance the development of remote medical monitoring solutions that aim to transform how clinicians deliver care to people with Parkinson’s disease. The first-of-its-kind experimental approach employed by Pfizer and IBM will harness a…

Stem cell therapy, which many people living with Parkinson’s disease have long pinned hope on as a potential treatment or even a cure, is finally advancing to clinical trial stage. The recent announcement of a Phase 1/2a clinical trial involving transplantation of stem cells into the first human subjects is…

mPower, a Parkinson’s disease (PD) iPhone app developed by Sage Bionetworks and a team of neurologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), marked the first year of its release by being highlighted in Apple Inc.’s “Loop You In” special product launch event on March 21, 2016.