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.
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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 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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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Researchers uncover where and why proteins malfunction in Parkinson's disease
Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, UCL and the University of Edinburgh have uncovered how a build-up of harmful protein starts to happen within neurons in Parkinson's disease, ultimately causing nerve cell death. ...
Aug 30, 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
Is it Parkinson's? These 10 signs could tell
Parkinson's disease can be hard for the average person to identify, but 10 warning signs may offer an early clue that you or a loved one may be developing the disease.
Aug 19, 2022
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Medical research
Treadmill exercise shown to improve Parkinson's symptoms in mice
Regular treadmill exercise helped improve Parkinson's disease symptoms in mice in a recent study by researchers at RUSH University Medical Center. The results of the study were recently published in the Cell Reports.
Aug 18, 2022
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