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Addressing anxiety may aid walking problems in Parkinson’s

People with Parkinson’s disease who have clinically significant anxiety tend to walk more slowly and with shorter steps than people with the disease who don’t have anxiety. That’s according to the study, “The impact of anxiety on gait impairments in Parkinson’s disease: insights from sensor-based gait analysis,” which…

Emotional processing tied to facial recognition in Parkinson’s: Study

Deficits in emotional processing, rather than impaired ability to simulate facial expressions, likely explain problems Parkinson’s disease patients encounter when trying to recognize emotions on human faces, a study suggests. Researchers asked patients and healthy individuals to recognize different, non-emotional facial expressions on avatars, either static or moving. No…

Phase 1/2a trial of NK cell therapy SNK01 wins FDA clearance

NKGen Biotech plans to begin clinical testing of SNK01, a natural killer (NK) cell therapy being developed to treat neurodegenerative diseases, in people with Parkinson’s disease, the company announced. This follows a go-ahead by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an investigational new drug (IND) application…

Proposed platform, app aim to improve life quality in Parkinson’s

Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT) in Germany are collaborating on a project with the aim of creating a digital platform and application that, used with a wearable device, can track the course of Parkinson’s disease and potentially improve patients’ quality of life. Called…

Alterations in epigenetic marks found in Parkinson’s patients: Study

Potential environmentally-driven alterations in certain epigenetic marks — DNA modifications that control gene activity — were detected in the blood of people with newly diagnosed, treatment-naïve, sporadic Parkinson’s disease, a study revealed. These epigenetic marks were linked with cellular processes driving ongoing neurodegeneration that underlies Parkinson’s, and changed over…