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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...Researchers Identify Why Dopamine Replacement Therapy has a Paradoxical Effect on Cognition
Dopamine replacement therapy, which is used to manage motor symptoms associated with Parkinson’s disease, can, at times, adversely affect cognition. Dr. Oury Monchi, Ph. D. in neuronal modeling and Head of the Neurophysiological and Neuroimaging...
Researchers Pinpoint How Copper Folds Protein Into Precursors of Parkinson’s Plaques
Aided by the Jaguar supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), researchers at North Carolina State University have figured out how copper induces misfolding in the protein associated with Parkinson’s disease, leading to creation of the...High Risk of Parkinson’s Disease for People Exposed to Pesticides Near Workplace
In April 2009, researchers at UCLA announced they had discovered a link between Parkinson’s disease and two chemicals commonly sprayed on crops to fight pests. That epidemiological study didn’t examine farmers who constantly work with pesticides...‘The Potential to Modify the Course of Parkinson’s Disease’
Georgetown University Medical Center’s Howard J. Federoff, MD, PhD, joins preeminent scientists from academia, government, and industry along with advocates, at the “One Mind for Research Forum,” a three-day conference designed to dramatically...
Ibuprofen May Offer Protection Against Developing Parkinson’s Disease
New research suggests that ibuprofen may offer protection against developing Parkinson’s disease, according to one of the largest studies to date investigating the possible benefits of the over-the-counter drug on the disease. The study is published...
