For many people with Parkinson’s disease, “levodopa” is well-known. Parkinson’s disease is a central nervous system disorder caused by the death of dopaminergic neurons. As a precursor to dopamine,…
Medtronic’s Percept is the fourth deep brain stimulation (DBS) system that has been approved by the FDA according to a recent article in Parkinson’s News Today. The unique feature…
Around 10 million people worldwide are living with Parkinson's disease, a progressive nervous system disorder impacting movement. While there are many current and proposed treatments, the medical community continues…
Diagnosing Parkinson's disease can be difficult, as it can only be done after motor symptoms appear. In an effort to create a better diagnostic method that can catch the disease…
As reported in Michael J. Fox News, the FDA has just approved the novel Percept PC Neurostimulator, a device inserted into the brain of patients with Parkinson's to administer deep…
Launched in January of 2020, and ending in May, the BEAT-PD Dream Challenge was designed to understand whether passive data collected from sensors could track symptom severity and disease progression…
As you probably know, our bodies are extremely complex. Every day, there are multiple processes working to help us live, breathe, work, eat, and more. But did you know…
Parkinson’s News Today recently published an article containing new information about biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease that can be linked to the early stages of Parkinson’s disease. Many people with…
Medical professionals have found that the melatonin levels of Parkinson's patients impact their symptoms, specifically the gastrointestinal, sleep disturbance, and cardiac symptoms. Parkinson's News Today reported on a study that…
Researchers at Seelos Therapeutics are planning an animal study to evaluate SLS-007, a treatment for Parkinson's disease. According to an article from Parkinson's News Today, this study is possible after…
Generating neurons is only one of many goals that have so far escaped scientists worldwide. According to an article in Yahoo, the lead author of a new study in the…
According to a recent article in Parkinson’s News Today, researchers at the UCSF Weill Institute discovered that disturbances in circadian rhythm increased a person’s risk of Parkinson's disease threefold. Circadian…
A study in the Journal of Movement Disorders on patients with Parkinson's disease has found a relationship between sedentary living and attention difficulty. Exercise is the age old medicine, with…
According to Parkinson's News Today, researchers have created a silicon-based antioxidant agent that can be supplemented into the diet to prevent neurodegeneration and issues with coordination and motor skills associated…
If you could take a vaccine to prevent disease progression, would you? Well, researchers recently tested the efficacy of such a vaccine for patients with Parkinson's disease. The experimental and…
Patients with Parkinson's disease or essential tremor are no strangers to shaking or tremors. In fact, for patients with Parkinson's disease, their tremor progresses throughout the course of the…
According to a story from Parkinson's News Today, a recent study has found that a combination treatment of levodopa and carbidopa delivered to the intestines could be an effective treatment…
According to a recent article in Parkinson’s News Today, results of an extension study confirm that FDA approved Nuplazid (pimavanserin) reduces the severity of delusions and hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease…
There is now a new version of the Neupro patch coming! This generic version was created by Vektor Pharma. Vektor concentrates on transdermal systems both through patches on the skin and…
You have a number of different cells throughout your body, all of which perform different functions or provide support. One extremely interesting type are astrocytes, star-shaped glial cells that…
According to Parkinson's News Today, the FDA is reviewing Gocovri as a potential treatment for "off episodes" in patients with Parkinson's disease who are already taking levodopa. "Off episodes"…
Parkinson's News Today recently published an article featuring a study in Italy showing the benefits of deep brain stimulation in patients with late-stage Parkinson’s disease. The history of the subthalamic…
Every day, the world becomes increasingly technological. With this comes advances in many realms, from healthcare to education. Recently, says Parkinson's News, medical technology company Manus Neurodynamica received £750,000 (approx. $950,000)…
What better way to study Parkinson's disease than...to not study it? Well, according to Parkinson's News Today, researchers are hoping to learn more about the disorder by doing just that.…
A study led by Yoon Ho Sup, a Professor at NTU Singapore, and Kwang-Soo Kim, a professor at Harvard University, has uncovered two compounds with the ability to increase the…
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