Creative arts therapy, or an expressive therapeutic approach that engages people in various creative activities, can reduce anxiety in individuals with Parkinson’s disease and improve their well-being — while potentially lessening their need for healthcare services — according to the results of a small pilot study conducted in Europe.

Approximately two-thirds of Parkinson’s disease patients may experience paranoia and unusual sensations, including visual hallucinations, according to a new study from the U.K. People with Parkinson’s may have paranoid thoughts or unfounded fears, as well as abnormal sensory experiences, the study found. Further, many of the individuals who had…

Providing emotional support is a key part of a genetic counselor’s role — but many people with Parkinson’s disease are not aware of this and don’t expect emotional support from genetic counselors, even if this kind of assistance would be welcome. That’s according to a new study from the…

Changes in the levels of thyroid hormones in the bloodstream are related to cognitive impairments in people with Parkinson’s disease, according to a new study by researchers in China. “Our findings provided definite proof that changes in thyroid hormone levels have clinical implications for cognitive outcomes” in Parkinson’s,…

Nearly all people with Parkinson’s disease taking part in Medtronic‘s ADAPT-PD trial had symptom-related brain signals strong enough to trigger adaptive deep brain stimulation (DBS), known for short as aDBS, according to early data. Among the findings: that results were similar regardless of disease severity or the location…

Anxiety is common among people with Parkinson’s disease and contributes to a worse life quality for patients irrespective of motor symptom severity, according to a new German study. Nearly 40% of the patients in the small study were found to have clinically relevant anxiety — and those with more…

Adults with Parkinson’s disease are willing to take additional medicine to manage daily off times — when the benefits of standard levodopa therapy wear off — as long as it does not increase the risk of their bodily fluids becoming discolored, according to a patient survey. Survey respondents also…

Why do we often neglect our mental health? Although the term contains the word “health,” we don’t always care for the health of our minds as well as we do that of our bodies. If we’re feeling under the weather, for instance, maybe with cold or flu symptoms, we…

Aggression aimed at caregivers in Parkinson’s disease and related disorders is associated with patients’ grief in coping with disease progression and related losses, a new study suggests. Fluctuations in cognition also play a role, researchers say. But these behavioral disturbances have serious consequences for caregivers, according to investigators, who…

A dozen runners who live with Parkinson’s disease (PD) hope to heighten awareness of the neurodegenerative disorder and raise funds for research by taking on one of the nation’s most demanding relay road races — the Blue Ridge Relay — on Sept. 9-10. The 12 runners, who’ve dubbed themselves…