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The country’s first coordinated initiative geared towards enhancing the holistic health of women diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease was officially launched last week by the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation (PDF) during a 3-day conference held in Florham Park, New Jersey. The Women and PD Initiative was created because of the underrecognized clinical needs of…

The first of a series of six new free online PD ExpertBriefings seminars has been launched by the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation with more practical tips for people living with Parkinson’s and continuing education for health professionals about under-recognized aspects of the progressive neurological disorder. “Many people living with Parkinson’s…

Ultra-athlete Sam Fox went through three long and back-breaking months, hiking, climbing and biking across the United States, all for the sake of raising awareness and funds for Parkinson’s disease through The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, and in honor of his own mother, Lucy, who’s been living…

Results from a recent study published in the journal Parkinsonism & Related Disorders showed that individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD) may want to consider preform everyday activities such as dish washing, laundry folding and strolls around the neighborhood, in an effort to better to control their disease symptoms.

Noting that while motor movements in people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) generally tend to slow down and decrease in intensity many retain the ability to move more quickly and forcefully, a team of scientists at Johns Hopkins Medical in Baltimore, Maryland, report evidence — gathered from proof-of-concept experiments with joysticks…

Researchers from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy are using patients’ own immune cells to enhance the brain’s ability to heal damaged nerve fibers caused by degenerative neurological disorders like Parkinson’s disease. This innovative research is being conducted in the laboratory of Dr. Elena V Batrakova, PhD, Associate Professor at the UNC Eshelman…

Recently, a group of researchers from the Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), in New York, have identified the physiological reason why dyskinesias, the involuntary motor movements experienced by patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) who are treated with levodopa, occurs. The study, entitled, “Loss of Striatonigral GABAergic Presynaptic Inhibition…

In a recent study led by researchers from the UCLA-DOE Institute entitled “Structure of the toxic core of α-synuclein from invisible crystals” published in Nature, an ultra-high-resolution structure of crystals from the core of alpha-synuclein fibrils, toxic assemblies formed in…

In a recent study published in PLOS One, entitled “Temporal Lobe and Frontal-Subcortical Dissociations in Non-Demented Parkinson’s Disease with Verbal Memory Impairment“, scientists from the University of Florida examined the association between Parkinson’s disease in non-dementia patients and verbal memory impairment. They found that about…

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc., a biopharmaceutical company specialized in the development and commercialization of innovative medicines to address unmet medical needs in central nervous system disorders, has just announced it has filed for a New Drug Application with the US Food and Drug Administration for NUPLAZID (pimavanserin) for the treatment of psychosis associated…