Neuroscience
Research reveals cause of 'freezing' gait in Parkinson's
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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Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Exercise hormone halts Parkinson's disease symptoms in mouse study
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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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Parkinson's breakthrough can diagnose disease from skin swabs in three minutes
A new method to detect Parkinson's disease has been determined by analyzing sebum with mass spectrometry.
Sep 7, 2022
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Medical research
Research shows that DOPA protects against melanoma
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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Neuroscience
Protein 'traffic jam' in neurons linked to neurodegeneration
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 & Movement disorders
Artificial intelligence model can detect Parkinson's from breathing patterns
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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Medical research
Increased concentrations of GPNMB in blood samples could be biomarker for Parkinson's disease
A large team of researchers working at the University of Pennsylvania, has found evidence that suggests increased concentrations of the transmembrane protein Glycoprotein Nonmetastatic Melanoma Protein B (GPNMB) in blood ...
Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Potential of nigrosome imaging for earlier diagnosis of Parkinson's disease
A team of neurophysicists, led by Malte Brammerloh of MPI CBS, found evidence that the identification of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sign for Parkinson's diagnosis, as a specific anatomical region in the brain, is ...
Aug 17, 2022
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Neuroscience
Timing of neuron development determines what they can become
When it comes to royalty, things are clear: The monarch's first child inherits the crown. Siblings born later must make do with a less glamorous profession. This is quite similar for some nerve cells in the brain. In their ...
Aug 16, 2022
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Medications
Study of OTC supplements shows some have very high levels of levodopa, which can lead to paranoia
A team of researchers from the Cambridge Health Alliance and the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy has found that over-the-counter supplements that are advertised as containing extracts from Mucuna pruriens, a ...
