This has led to the commonly used term “parkinsonism plus syndrome.” A few such syndromes that are well described and, like PD, are thought to be related to the abnormal accumulation of proteins such ...

Last week, as the World celebrated Parkinson’s Day, 67-year-old Borivli resident, Geeta Nene found herself reflecting on the ...

Last year, when 68-year-old Antonio’s speech suddenly turned muffled, his walk slowed down, his limbs turned stiff — making ...

Cell therapy development for Parkinson’s disease has been a marathon. Two new papers represent an important step forward.

Corticobasal syndrome (CBS) is a form of atypical parkinsonism (a parkinsonism-plus syndrome), which means that it shares some features with Parkinson's disease such as slowness of movement ...

An international research collaboration led by Rutgers University-New Brunswick scientists that examined microscopic blobs of ...

and Parkinson-plus syndrome. Prevalence of dementia is increasing due to longer life expectancy. Exclude reversible causes of dementia first. The common dementia syndromes in clinical practice are ...

Two independent clinical trials demonstrate the safety of stem cell therapies for Parkinson's disease. The papers, published ...

People with Parkinson's disease who have a pacemaker-like device implanted in the brain spend an extra four-plus hours a day free of tremors and involuntary movements than they do on medication ...

Israeli researchers said Friday they have developed a simple, "revolutionary" blood test that for the first time would allow doctors to detect the onset of Parkinson's disease in its very earliest ...

A longstanding mystery in Parkinson's disease research has been why some individuals carrying pathogenic variants that increase their risk of PD go on to develop the disease, while others who also ...