The Parkinson’s Foundation has launched a new education series for healthcare professionals to improve the treatment and health outcomes of people with Parkinson’s disease. The Education Series for Community Providers, developed in collaboration with the CVS Health Foundation, seeks to expand patients’ access to high quality healthcare…
Variations in small, repetitive DNA sequences called short tandem repeats (STRs) are associated with an altered risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, a new study reports. “We demonstrate for the first time that these complex repeat regions in fact influence a person’s risk of disease and chip away at understanding…
Highland Instruments will use its new technology — called the Integrated Motion Analysis Suite or IMAS — to objectively improve the evaluation of motor function in Parkinson’s disease patients undergoing treatment with its novel noninvasive brain stimulation device, called Electrosonic Stimulation (ESStim). IMAS will now be included in an…
Early studies in nerve cells and a rat model of Parkinson’s disease support the potential of fosgonimeton, also known as ATH-1017, to be neuroprotective and possibly disease modifying, Athira Pharma, the therapy’s developer, reported. Data from preclinical work showed that the therapy increased cell survival in the…
InMed Pharmaceuticals will launch a new program – the INM-900 series – that will investigate the therapeutic potential of its cannabinoid analogs in neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s, the company announced in a press release. Cannabinoids, also called phytocannabinoids, are the active chemicals that give the cannabis plant…
DiagnaMed Holdings will develop a virtual reality and artificial intelligence tool (VR/AI Neuro) for the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease. The company acquired an exclusive worldwide license of intellectual property from the KU Center for Technology Commercialization, at the University of Kansas, for the…
Levels of neurofilament light chain (NfL) protein in the bloodstream of people with Parkinson’s disease can independently predict cognitive decline, a recent study suggests. Although p-tau181 concentration, a biomarker in Alzheimer’s disease, which is the most common cause of dementia, was higher in Parkinson’s patients, links to cognitive performance…
Difficulty in swallowing medications, either tablets or capsules, was common among people with Parkinson’s disease, a study reports. This impairment in swallowing, called dysphagia, also predicted worse motor complications, and data suggest capsules tended to be easier to swallow than tablets. Evidence of swallowing difficulties for food is a…
Toxic clumps of the alpha-synuclein protein, the underlying cause of neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease, may originate in the digestive tract before migrating to the brain, a study in mice reported, supporting previous work into a gut-brain axis in disease development. Changes to microbes in the digestive tract, known…
Nitrase Therapeutics showed suppressing the activity of an enzyme called synuclein nitrase reduces toxic clumps of the alpha-synuclein protein and normalizes the electrical activity of dopamine-producing, or dopaminergic, neurons derived from Parkinson’s patients. The accumulation of toxic alpha-synuclein clumps is the underlying cause of the progressive death of…
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