Parkinson's Blog

How Columbia researchers are working to treat, prevent, and ultimately cure the world’s fastest-growing neurological disorder.

As 2024 is set to end as Earth’s hottest year on record – breaking the previous record set in 2023– a UCLA Health researcher says people living with neurodegenerative diseases will be uniquely vulnerable to worsening heat waves because of a higher risk of heat-related complications.

The patient was living with Parkinson’s disease for nine years. Over time, the symptoms became difficult to manage with medication alone

Poor sleep quality and later mid-sleep time were associated with significantly higher odds of more severe depression in Parkinson disease.

A new study has achieved near-perfect accuracy in detecting Parkinson’s disease by analyzing brain responses to emotional stimuli using EEG and AI.

A joint research team from the University of Canberra and Kuwait College of Science and Technology has achieved groundbreaking detection of Parkinson’s disease with near-perfect accuracy, simply by analyzing brain responses to emotional situations like watching video clips or images.

The encounter between the A-list actress and veteran interviewer was famously awkward.

Meta-Description: Drugmaker AbbVie could be set up for a big year in 2025 after completing another successful clinical trial for its Parkinson’s medication. Biotech firms live and die on the success of the medications they develop and clinical testing …

Students work on their thesis for weeks, months, sometimes years. Once completed, their work is often relegated to a dusty drawer. The Thesis Tales column is devoted to highlighting student research. In episode 3: Femke Aminetzah (21, Bachelor’s in Artificial Intelligence) investigated the best way to reduce motor symptoms in parkinson’s patients using AI.

Nancy Schexnaider, a hospice social worker from Vermilion Parish, shares why her Parkinson’s diagnosis in 2022 was, “the best thing that ever happened to her.”