Antisense therapy showed promising results in a first-in-human trial for Huntington’s disease.
Articles on Parkinson's disease
Displaying 81 - 100 of 132 articles
A new analysis shows that coffee is associated with a host of positive health effects.
There’s optimism that the identification of genes linked to Parkinson’s could lead to better treatments.
Lewy body dementia is the second most common type of dementia. Why don’t more people recognize the signs?
A new study has been found that television viewing increases your risk of dying from an inflammatory-related condition like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease. But it’s more complicated than that.
Research has yielded new insights into Parkinson’s disease, and treatments are expanding. But a shortage of doctors trained in the disease leaves a gap in care.
Highly trained dancers provide insights for researchers helping design improved rehab programs for people with mobility impairments. The next step could include rehab robots as dance partners.
2017 marks the 200th anniversary since the 1817 publication of Dr James Parkinson’s seminal work on what he called the “Shaking Palsy”.
The doctor had many interests – and was a champion of the poor.
People with neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s often have difficulty swallowing, a dangerous condition. Here’s why treatment of these illnesses should include attention to swallowing problems.
Developers working on apps to help monitor and improve our health could accidentally find themselves on the wrong side of the law.
A mouse study suggests that Parkinson’s might start in the gut and later spread to the brain.
Our study published this week shows a new method to induce and measure visual hallucinations in anyone at any time.
Yoshinori Ohsumi’s research on autophagy – a process that lets cells clear out harmful materials – brought biology and medicine closer to finding treatments for chronic and deadly diseases.
A sufficiently talented brainjacker could one day influence the behaviour of a person in worrying ways.
Smoking causes 96,000 premature deaths a year in the UK. The fact that it protects against Parkinson’s disease is not a reason to take up the habit.
The reason why some of us can’t help but to dance, and others can’t hold a beat, might lie in the brain.
Parkinson’s disease is the second-most-prevalent neurodegenerative condition in Australia, with an estimated 70,000 living with the disease. But what do we know about the causes and risk factors?
Restless leg syndrome is a common affliction characterised by uncomfortable feelings in the legs accompanied by an irresistible urge to move the legs to relieve the sensations.
A disease which can mimic the slow march of old age is especially cruel and challenging for those in the prime of life.
Top contributors
-
Professor of Neuroscience, Royal Veterinary College
-
Professor of Neurology, Norman Fixel Institute, University of Florida
-
Professor and Head of Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience, University College Cork
-
Associate Professor, School of Biomedicine, Adelaide University
-
Clinical Research Fellow, Imperial College London
-
Professor of Physical Activity, Lifestyle, and Population Health, University of Sydney
-
Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher, University College Cork
-
Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
-
Honorary (Professorial Fellow) at the Centre for Neuroscience, The University of Melbourne
-
Associate Professor, Neurology, University of Florida
-
Computational Neuroscientist and NIHR Academic Radiology Resident, University of Oxford
-
Professor of Health Law and Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
-
Reader in Neurology and Neuroepidemiology, Queen Mary University of London
-
Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford
-
Associate Professor in Sociology and Anthropology, Monash University