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Researchers Visualize the Development of Parkinson’s Cells
In the US alone, at least 500,000 people suffer from Parkinson’s disease, a neurological disorder that affects a person’s ability to control his or her movement. New technology from the University of Bonn in Germany lets researchers observe...
Study Demonstrates a Connection Between a Common Chemical And Parkinson’s Disease
A University of Kentucky faculty member is a contributing author on a new study demonstrating a connection between a common solvent chemical and Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Franca Cambi of the UK Kentucky Neuroscience Institute collaborated with researchers...
Risk of Parkinson’s Disease Increase Through Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury has entered the public’s consciousness as the silent, signature wound brought back by many of our military warriors from Iraq and Afghanistan. But such injuries don’t only happen in warfare, they happen to civilians...
Switch in Cell’s ‘power Plant’ Declines with Age, Rejuvenated By Drug
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have found a protein normally involved in blood pressure regulation in a surprising place: tucked within the little “power plants” of cells, the mitochondria. The quantity of this...
Michael J. Fox Foundation Announces Collaboration With Shake It Up Foundation Australia
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) has announced a new collaboration with the Shake It Up Foundation Australia and its founder, businessman Clyde Campbell.
REM Sleep Behavior Disorder is a Risk Factor for Parkinson’s Disease
Patients suffering REM sleep behavior disorders dream nightmares in which they are attacked and pursued, with the particularity that they express them by screaming, crying, punching and kicking while sleeping. Lancet Neurology has published the third...
Needle-in-a-haystack Search for New Drugs for Brain Diseases
The scientific equivalent of searching for a needle in a haystack has paid off for researchers seeking leads for potential new medicines for Parkinson’s Disease and other brain disorders. Chronicled in a new episode in the American Chemical Society’s...
Possible Susceptibility Genes Found in Neurodegenerative Disorder
An international research team, co-led by scientists at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Florida, have discovered three potential susceptibility genes for development of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a rare neurodegenerative disease that causes symptoms...
