http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspxYour source for the latest news at NWPF.(c) 2010 Northwest Parkinson's Foundation. All rights reserved.It already can be harvested to provide extra skin for burns victims and to grow cells that form cartilage and muscle.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=34247/29/2010 12:00:00 AMThe recent focus on depression and the have-it-all woman has implied that modern-day mental health is primarily a female issue. Not so, says James Delingpole, who has battled with manic depression for years…http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=34237/29/2010 12:00:00 AMDealing with the medical difficulties of a chronic illness is challenging enough. You also have to worry about the effect of illness on your finances.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=34227/29/2010 12:00:00 AMResearchers have found a molecule that causes the nerve cell death in the brain that sparks the condition – and hope they can soon stop it in its tracks.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=34217/29/2010 12:00:00 AMParkinson’s disease is a condition caused by a loss of cells in an area of the brain called the substantia nigra. These brain cells produce dopamine, a chemical involved in the relay of messages between the brain and body, allowing for smooth, coordinated movement.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=34207/29/2010 12:00:00 AMParkinson’s disease, multiple system atrophy, and dementia may have preclinical symptoms, such as idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD), lasting for decades in some cases according to new research published online July 28 in the journal Neurology.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=34197/29/2010 12:00:00 AMAt this dance class in Kirkland, the students walk in slowly, some rigidly or with a bit of a tremor. They take their places, not at a ballet barre or on the dance floor, but sitting in chairs.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=34187/29/2010 12:00:00 AMTreadmill training can help Parkinson's patients to walk more normally, according to a new review of the medical literature.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=34177/22/2010 12:00:00 AMResearchers are one step closer to understanding why Parkinson's disease patients have trouble walking. They have found those that struggle with gait problems have a deficit of nerve cells that produce a specific chemical in the brain.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=34167/22/2010 12:00:00 AMA good App should make your life easier, educate, entertain, inform, or enlighten. For someone with Parkinson’s disease (PD) who is seeking relief from a wide range of symptoms (voice, balance, tremor, gait, and memory to name a few) there just may be an App for your iphone or smart phone–and it may even be FREE!http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=34157/22/2010 12:00:00 AMAs Parkinson’s disease progresses, many other symptoms and problems start developing, some due to the disease process itself and others due to the effects of natural aging. Of these, dental diseases and the problems associated with them need to be tackled as soon as possible so as to make the patient’s life more comfortable.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=34147/22/2010 12:00:00 AMRui Costa, Principal Investigator of the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (Portugal), and Xin Jin, of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health (USA), describe in the latest issue of the journal Nature, that the activity of certain neurons in the brain can signal the initiation and termination of behavioural sequences we learn anew.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=34137/22/2010 12:00:00 AMA Michigan State University researcher is working to uncover how a protein known as parkin may help nerve cells fight off damage from Parkinson's disease, a strategy that could lead to new therapies for the degenerative ailment.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=34127/22/2010 12:00:00 AMResearchers at Queensland University of Technology, have developed a method to help predict which Parkinson's patients are likely to fall.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=34107/15/2010 12:00:00 AMCanine Partners for Life (CPL), a nonprofit dog-assistance organization located in Cochranville, Chester County, has a mission to make independence possible for people with disabilities.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=34097/15/2010 12:00:00 AMMy unplanned trip to our St. Albans dentist occurred after a bite of toast produced a crunch of enamel. But I was scarcely out of the car when another patient recognized me from the photo that runs with this column.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=34087/15/2010 12:00:00 AMScientists from The Vision Centre have reported remarkable progress in developing ways to restore sight to people suffering from age-related vision loss.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=34077/15/2010 12:00:00 AMA new study published in the July issue of the Archives of Neurology suggests low levels of vitamin D may increase an individual’s risk of the neurological disorder Parkinson’s disease.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=34067/15/2010 12:00:00 AMUK researchers plan to use new stem cell technology to grow brain cells thought to be associated with Parkinson’s disease from skin samples.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=34057/15/2010 12:00:00 AMThe University of South Florida's Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair has been granted a patent for a cell transplantation procedure combining human umbilical cord blood (HUCB) cells and a sugar-alcohol compound called "mannitol" that may make a big difference in treating life-threatening neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis and stroke, among others.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=34047/8/2010 12:00:00 AM