In an effort to streamline the process of diagnosing patients with multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease, researchers used digital cameras to capture changes in gait—a symptom of these diseases—and developed a machine-learning ...
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A new screening test app could help advance the early detection of Parkinson's disease and severe COVID-19, improving the management of these illnesses.
Oct 5, 2022
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Many neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease (PD) result from the combined effects of mutations in several genes (i.e., polygenic). Although previous studies have identified a few genes that are responsible ...
Oct 3, 2022
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Aggregates of the protein alpha-synuclein spread in the brains of people with Parkinson's disease through a cellular waste-ejection process, suggests a new study led by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers.
Sep 20, 2022
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Researchers think they've figured out why Parkinson's disease causes a person's limbs to become so stiff that at times they can feel frozen in place.
Sep 12, 2022
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Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston have shown that a hormone secreted into the blood during endurance, or aerobic, exercise reduces levels of a protein linked to Parkinson's ...
Sep 12, 2022
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A new method to detect Parkinson's disease has been determined by analyzing sebum with mass spectrometry.
Sep 7, 2022
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People with light skin tones are far more likely to develop melanoma skin cancer than people with dark skin tones. This large disparity results from far more than can be explained by the UV protective effects of melanin pigment, ...
Sep 6, 2022
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Neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease are associated with atypical proteins that form tangles in the brain, killing neurons. Neurobiologists at EPFL have now identified some key mechanisms ...
Aug 29, 2022
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Parkinson's disease is notoriously difficult to diagnose as it relies primarily on the appearance of motor symptoms such as tremors, stiffness, and slowness, but these symptoms often appear several years after the disease ...
Aug 22, 2022
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