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Study Highlights Importance of Personalized Parkinson’s Treatment

Invasive treatment approaches for advanced Parkinson’s disease have differential effects on disease-associated motor and non-motor symptoms, a real-life observational study shows. These findings suggest that selection of a treatment should be based on each patient’s particular clinical profile, researchers say. The study, “EuroInf 2: Subthalamic…

Treadmill Incline Training Improves Walking Speed of Parkinson’s Patients, Study Finds

Eight weeks of training on a treadmill with continuously varying surface inclines improved gait disturbances, particularly walking speed, in Parkinson’s disease patients, researchers report. Their finding were published in the study, “Exploring gait adaptations to perturbed and conventional treadmill training in Parkinson’s disease: Time-course, sustainability, and…

Monitoring with PKG System Helps Change Care in Nearly a Third of Parkinson’s Cases, Real-World Study Reports

Continuous monitoring of movement symptoms using a wearable device called the Personal KinetiGraph (PKG) may help clinicians make more appropriate treatment choices for their patients with Parkinson’s disease, according to a real-world clinical study. The study, “Qualitative Evaluation of the Personal KinetiGraphTM Movement Recording System in a…

Gene Therapy Preserves Nerve Fibers in Mouse Model of Severe Neurodegeneration

An investigational gene therapy was able to preserve nerve axons — long projections that connect nerve cells and transport information — in a mouse model of severe axonal degeneration. Because axon degeneration precedes the death of neurons in several neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the findings…