Parkinson's Blog

The state of Florida said the execution of an inmate with Parkinson’s symptoms should not be delayed over his legal challenge to the state’s lethal injection procedures.

People with Parkinson’s face a continuous decrease in neuron cells that reduces the levels of dopamine (neurotransmitter) in their body. L-dopa is a chemical that is converted to dopamine in our body and so acts as an anti-Parkinson’s drug.

xercise is considered fundamental to the treatment of Parkinson’s, with studies showing it can alleviate symptoms of the disease and improve mobility.

UC San Francisco study published in Nature Medicine says adaptive deep brain stimulation can manage motor problems, insomnia by adjusting brain signals according to patient’s condition.

Here’s what we know so far.

Machine learning has been used to accurately predict Parkinson’s disease subtypes from images of stem cells. This advancement offers the potential for personalized medicine by classifying four subtypes with up to 95% accuracy, leveraging stem cell models and AI to potentially revolutionize treatm

An small new study has found that adaptive deep brain stimulation that uses AI can reduce the time a person experiences their most bothersome Parkinson’s symptom by around 50%.

Leventhal and his team went to work. They hired more instructors who spoke Spanish or Mandarin and translated marketing materials, which boosted the number of participants from Hispanic and ethnically Chinese communities.

A new device reacts to rising and falling levels of Parkinson’s medication in the body and improves quality of life for some patients.

Small NIH-funded trial shows the promise of personalized medicine.