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TRANSEURO Readies New Attempt at Stem Cell Therapy for Parkinson’s

TRANSEURO, a research consortium funded by the European Union, is readying an old weapon for a new round in the struggle to find a long-term treatment for Parkinson’s disease —  transplanted fetal stem cells producing dopamine, a technology researchers attempted 30 years ago. Today, improved methods and a focus on younger patients make TRANSEURO…

World Brain Day 2016: Focus on Aging Brain Global Impact

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,”…

New Screening Tool May Improve Parkinson’s Disease Research

Diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s are associated with the formation of large protein aggregates that disrupt a variety of cellular functions. Now, researchers at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT have developed a new system called yeast Transcriptional Reporting of Aggregating Proteins, or yTRAP, that can rapidly screen millions of…

Possible New Way of Treating Parkinson’s Found via Link to Gaucher Disease

While investigating links to Gaucher disease — a rare genetic condition with strong ties to Parkinson’s — researchers collaborating across three National Institutes of Health (NIH) centers reported finding a drug molecule potentially capable of treating Parkinson’s by reducing the clusters of aggregated α-synuclein inside cells. In doing so, the research…

Parkinson’s Disease Might Be Triggered By Traumatic Brain Injury

Researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York discovered that traumatic brain injury can often precede the development of Parkinson’s disease. The study “Association of Traumatic Brain Injury With Late-Life Neurodegenerative Conditions and Neuropathologic Findings,” published in …