Mar 11, 2010 -
Early warning signs of Parkinson's
Researchers in New Haven are trying to determine the early warning signs of Parkinson's disease, a chronic movement disorder. Preliminary results indicate that your sense of smell could determine your risk.
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Mar 11, 2010 -
Movement disorder symptoms are lessened by an antibiotic
Discovery of an antibiotic's capacity to improve cell function in laboratory tests is providing movement disorder researchers with leads to more desirable molecules with potentially similar traits, according to University of Alabama scientists co-authoring a paper publishing March 10 in the journal Disease Models & Mechanisms.
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Mar 11, 2010 -
Parkinson's impairs emotional communication; one treatment may make that worse
People with Parkinson’s disease often can’t differentiate between a sweet smile or an angry grimace, a warm welcome or a rude remark. And one of the major treatments may be making this worse, according to new research.
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Mar 11, 2010 -
Advil May Reduce Parkinson’s Risk
The anti-inflammatory drug ibuprofen may act as a neuroprotective agent against the risk of Parkinson’s disease, according to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Mar 11, 2010 -
Virtual reality offers insight into Parkinson's disease
A world first study on how thinking tasks impact on the 'freezing' of feet often experienced by people with Parkinson's Disease (PD) will lead to new directions for targeting therapy.
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Mar 11, 2010 -
Music can repair brain after a stroke
Two years ago, Rosemary Page could barely speak after a stroke. Today, she has sentences, and that began as songs.
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Mar 11, 2010 -
Parkinson’s Disease: It’s More Than Tremors
While celebrities, including Muhammad Ali, Michael J. Fox and Janet Reno have helped to increase name recognition of Parkinson’s Disease, there remains a general lack of understanding about this neurological disorder in terms of functional aspects and caregiving considerations.
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Mar 11, 2010 -
The Growing Power Of The Sugar Pill
The other day I came across a fake news story on the Internet. It was a send-up of the pharmaceutical industry which featured a bunch of drug industry executives wringing their hands in despair: placebo pills, the fake news story reported, were getting stronger, what was a drug executive to do?
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Mar 11, 2010 -
Sibling ex-Ads upbeat despite Parkinson’s
One Dorwin brother, Pat, helped lead Farragut High School to the 1982 Class AAA baseball state championship as a standout left fielder and one of the team's leading hitters.
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Mar 04, 2010 -
Every Victory Counts’ with Parkinson’s disease
Former Olympic bronze-medal cyclist and Tour de France participant Davis Phinney says, “A string of good moments makes a good day and seven good days makes a week and suddenly you realize that you have a good life, filled with moments of victory.”
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Mar 04, 2010 -
Devoted wife offers LBD support group at facility her husband founded
In 2008, Cathy Flanagan reached a crisis point in trying to manage the difficult symptoms associated with her husband’s disease, Lewy Body Dementia (LBD). She was urged by someone on his medical team to attend a LBD caregiver support group. The closest one to her Shrewsbury home was in Jamaica Plain. Cathy drove an hour and half, fighting rush-hour traffi c to get there.
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Mar 04, 2010 -
Help for Parkinson's patients
A daily cocktail of food additives can lead to dramatic improvements for people with Parkinson's Disease, a retired dentist believes.
Andrew Carmichael, 68, who lives in Ashton, Preston, has been researching the theory that gut health and brain health are connected.
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Mar 04, 2010 -
Reading, writing info directly into brain possible
Scientists in Japan are developing electric sensors using nanotechnology that could not only read information from our brains, but also write information to it.
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Mar 04, 2010 -
The hope of music's healing powers
Yes, yes, it hath charms to soothe a savage breast (or beast, if you prefer to repeat a common mistake). But researchers are finding that music may be an effective balm for many other afflictions: the isolation of conditions such as autism and Alzheimer's disease, the disability that results from stroke, the physical stress of entering the world too early.
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Mar 04, 2010 -
Elderly are in need of less 'tort reform'
Like a lot of people in their 50s, I've already faced the difficult decisions of caring for my parents - first at their home, later at my home and finally, in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities.
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