Hello, friends of mine. Everyone is conscious of the importance of sharing experiences, information, knowledge and even feelings and emotions, the way we do ...
(AP)Scientists have potentially discovered a way to make an almost endless supply of stem cells that could safely be used in patients and research, without any...
Study Shows Length of Fertility for Women May Be a Factor in Risk for Parkinson's Disease -- Women who are fertile for more than 39 years and have natural ...
Encephalitis Lethargica Sci/Tech | Brian Lee The year is 1918. The world is relieved, as the Spanish Flu epidemic has just ended. All of a sudden, thousands of...
Why multiple pregnancies increases the risk is not known for certain, Saunders-Pullman says. "We speculate because of the multiple postpartum periods, [their]...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - At the behest of U.S. regulators, Solvay Pharmaceuticals is busy testing a treatment for advanced Parkinson's disease that has been...
27 Feb 2009 - 11:00 PST Scientists from the US and Australia are using cells from yeast and mammals to learn about how environment and genes affect whether a ...
The incidence of pathological gambling in treated Parkinson's patients is eight per cent compared with one per cent in the general population. Photograph by:...
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Scientists may be growing impatient, but President Obama has been rightly taking his time in addressing a campaign promise to lift the ban on federal funding...
Rivastigmine appears to relieve specific neuropsychiatric symptoms, euphoria/elation and irritability/lability, compared with placebo in patients with...
Complex links between alpha-syn, PARK9 and manganese shown in yeast model Researchers believe the PARK9 gene, mutations in which are thought to be responsible...
U.S. scientists have developed a new method to remove potential cancer-causing genes during the reprogramming of human skin cells into induced pluripotent stem...
Parkinson's disease (PD) and essential tremor are both primarily movement disorders. The symptoms are commonly confused with each other, mainly because...
— Need an MRI scan? Tell the doctor if you use a nicotine patch or any other medication patch — or you'll risk a burn during the MRI. Patches that ooze...
Hey everyone, I'm new to the forum, and I've been doing a lot of research online about Parkinson's disease. There's so many great groups out there like this...
The White House has released an advance text of what President Obama plans to say at midday when he signs an executive order lifting the ban on federal funding...
Hi this is my first post here I was diagnosed with PD about two months ago but have been suffering from chronic headaches for two years which no one can figure...
-I agree with you chronic headaches are awfull. I think that the fact you have PD will not make live easier for you. If you have stiffness of the neck , than...
Scientists have taken another important step toward using ordinary skin cells that are made to behave like embryonic stem cells to find treatments for...
Gastroparesis is a stomach disorder that leads to delayed emptying. This causes food to remain in the stomach for too long rather than move into the intestines...
Olfactory dysfunction presenting as odor detection, discrimination, and identification is a common finding in patients with early non vascular Parkinson's...
or Dementia With Lewy Bodies: Presented at ADPD -- Memantine is well tolerated and shows significant benefit over placebo for patients with Parkinson's disease...
In a new study conducted in Singapore, it was shown that if you choose a certain color of tea, you may really do your brain a favor. Minneapolis, Minnesota...
Neurology specialists attending the XXVIII Sociedad Andaluza de Neurología Annual Meeting (SAN, in Cádiz-Spain) emphasized that music can benefit some...
TauTaTis, Inc. announces that its lead compound for inhibition of tau protein pathology, the specific neurodegenerative process in Alzheimer's Disease, has...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- March 16, 2009 -- Long-term use of the rotigotine transdermal patch is generally well tolerated and demonstrates maintained...
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder, one of a variety of such conditions. To date, we have not identified the cause for any of them,...
Parkinson's patients play cards. Deep-brain stimulation - a technique in which electrodes are implanted in the brain - is commonly used to relieve some...