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The NIH recently announced it has awarded a $413,000, two-year grant to Dr. D. Allan Butterfield, PhD, a researcher at the University of Kentucky (UK) Department of Chemistry and Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA), to study a new model of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Dr. Butterfield who is…

Researchers led by Alain Dagher and collaborators at McGill University recently published a study entitled “Network Structure of Brain Atrophy in de novo Parkinson’s Disease” in the journal eLife where they reveal new insights into Parkinson’s disease (PD) progression. PD is the second most common…

In a recent study published in the journal Molecular Neurodegeneration, a team of researchers from the Imperial College London and Newcastle University developed a new non-invasive technique that is able to improve symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD) in rats. Parkinson’s disease is neurodegenerative disorder that mainly affects neurons that…

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…