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Grant Supports Potential Disease-modifying Parkinson’s Therapies

The Silverstein Foundation for Parkinson’s with GBA is supporting early work by AcureX Therapeutics to bring into patient testing potential disease-modifying treatments for Parkinson’s disease. Specifically, grant funding will go to advance the development of small molecule compounds targeting the path involving a specific protein in mitochondria — the…

$1.8M Earmarked for Cutting-edge Parkinson’s Research

The American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA) has awarded $1.85 million to research projects focused on innovative tools and strategies to advance care and treatment of Parkinson’s disease for the 2021–2022 funding year. For the second year in a row, ADPA’s annual research funding included specialized grants to projects focused…

Preexisting Bipolar Disorder Worsens Parkinson’s Problems

A previous diagnosis of bipolar disorder negatively affects the course of Parkinson’s disease, and is associated with greater neuropsychiatric and cognitive problems, poorer treatment outcomes, and shorter survival, a study shows. Also, a greater proportion of Parkinson’s patients with preexisting bipolar disorder had a history of either condition in…

Patients, Caregivers Asked to Help Adira in Choosing Grant Awards

The Adira Foundation is inviting people with neurodegenerative diseases and their caregivers to join a grant proposal review committee. A nonprofit foundation, its mission is to unite people affected by some of most common neurodegenerative diseases — namely, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and…

Sweet Marjoram Tea May Lessen Non-motor Symptoms

Daily consumption of sweet marjoram tea, in addition to standard antiparkinsonian medication, may help reduce non-motor symptoms and depression in people with Parkinson’s disease, a small study suggests. Notably, the one-month intervention, while safe, was found to have no significant effect on patients’ motor symptoms, even though they showed…

B-SOiD Algorithm May Make it Easier to Study Behavior

A novel machine learning algorithm called B-SOiD quickly and efficiently analyzes animal behaviors, and may be useful in assessing movement disorders in people with Parkinson’s disease. Researchers described their findings in the study, “B-SOiD, an open-source unsupervised algorithm for identification and fast prediction of behaviors,” published in Nature…

Many Patients Harbor Misconceptions About Vaccines

Many people with Parkinson’s disease have misconceptions about routine vaccinations, with more than one of 10 patients thinking they are not recommended for people with Parkinson’s — even though they very much are, as they can be life-saving. The results, based on a survey of patients in the U.S.,…