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Promising drug slows down advance of Parkinson's disease and improves symptoms

Treating Parkinson's disease patients with the experimental drug GM1 ganglioside improved symptoms and slowed their progression during a two and a half-year trial, Thomas Jefferson University researchers report in a new study ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created Nov 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New method helps target Parkinson's disease

(Medical Xpress)—Health professionals may soon have a new method of diagnosing Parkinson's disease, one that is noninvasive and inexpensive, and, in early testing, has proved to be effective more than 90 percent of the ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created Nov 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study identifies a potential cause of Parkinson's disease

Deciphering what causes the brain cell degeneration of Parkinson's disease has remained a perplexing challenge for scientists. But a team led by scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has pinpointed ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created Nov 19, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Parkinson's disease protein causes disease spread and neuron death in healthy animals

Understanding how any disease progresses is one of the first and most important steps towards finding treatments to stop it. This has been the case for such brain-degenerating conditions as Alzheimer's disease. ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created Nov 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study finds association between rare neuromuscular disorder and loss of smell

Changes in the ability to smell and taste can be caused by a simple cold or upper respiratory tract infection, but they may also be among the first signs of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's ...

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Potential new class of drugs protects nerve cells in models of Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Researchers at the University of Iowa and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, have identified a new class of small molecules that block nerve cell death in animal models of Parkinson's disease and ...

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Mechanism that leads to sporadic Parkinson's disease identified

Researchers in the Taub Institute at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have identified a mechanism that appears to underlie the common sporadic (non-familial) form of Parkinson's disease, the progressive movement ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created Sep 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physiotherapy beneficial for people with Parkinson's disease in the short term

(Medical Xpress)—Results from a systematic review and meta-analysis led by the University of Birmingham in the UK suggest that physiotherapy benefits people with Parkinson's disease in the short term (< 3 months).

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Sleep improves memory in people with Parkinson's disease

(Medical Xpress) -- People with Parkinson's disease performed markedly better on a test of working memory after a night's sleep, and sleep disorders can interfere with that benefit, researchers have shown.

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created Aug 21, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Rejected drug may protect against toxic substance common to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases

The second of two studies on latrepirdine, recently published in Molecular Psychiatry, demonstrates new potential for the compound in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, sleep disorders, and other neurodegenerative ...

Neuroscience created Aug 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New hope for eyes damaged by Parkinson's disease

(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists have discovered a new avenue for the treatment of vision loss, one of the complications of Parkinson's disease.

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Canada: Parkinson's guidelines set standard for care

(Medical Xpress) -- It’s been five years in the making but health-care workers across the country now have guidelines on how to diagnose and treat patients with Parkinson’s disease.

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Powerful class of antioxidants may be potent Parkinson's treatment

A new and powerful class of antioxidants could one day be a potent treatment for Parkinson's disease, researchers report.

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created Jul 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Severe flu increases risk of Parkinson's: research

Severe influenza doubles the odds that a person will develop Parkinson's disease later in life, according to University of British Columbia researchers.

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created Jul 20, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Parkinson's: Newly discovered antibody could facilitate early diagnosis

Conditions such as Parkinson’s disease are a result of pathogenic changes to proteins. In the neurodegenerative condition of Parkinson’s disease, which is currently incurable, the alpha-synuclein ...

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