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Fat Influences Decisions Taken by Brain Cells for Production and Survival
December 23, 2012 — Scientists have identified two molecules that play an important role in the survival and production of nerve cells in the brain, including nerve cells that produce dopamine. The discovery may be ... > full story -
Silent Stroke Can Cause Parkinson's Disease
December 18, 2012 — Scientists have for the first time identified why a patient who appears outwardly healthy may develop Parkinson's ... > full story -
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Genetic Manipulation of Urate Alters Neurodegeneration in Mouse Model of Parkinson's Disease
December 17, 2012 — Investigators report that mice with a genetic mutation increasing urate levels were protected against the kind of neurodegeneration that underlies Parkinson's disease, while the damage was worse in ... > full story -
Stem Cell-Derived Dopaminergic Neurons Rescue Motor Defects in Parkinsonian Monkeys
December 3, 2012 — Researchers have derived dopaminergic neurons from bone marrow stem cells in ... > full story -
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Promising Drug Slows Down Advance of Parkinson's Disease and Improves Symptoms
November 29, 2012 — Treating Parkinson's disease patients with the experimental drug GM1 ganglioside improved symptoms and slowed their progression during a two and a half-year ... > full story -
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Scientists Image Brain Structures That Deteriorate in Parkinson's
November 26, 2012 — A new imaging technique developed at MIT offers the first glimpse of the degeneration of two brain structures affected by Parkinson's ... > full story -
Exercise Rate Related to Improvements in Parkinson’s Disease
November 26, 2012 — People with Parkinson's disease benefit from exercise programs on stationary bicycles, with the greatest effect for those who pedal faster, according to a new ... > full story -
New Method Helps Target Parkinson's Disease
November 20, 2012 — Health professionals may soon have a new method of diagnosing Parkinson's disease, one that is noninvasive and inexpensive, and, in early testing, has proved to be effective more than 90 percent of ... > full story -
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Potential Cause of Parkinson's Disease Identified
November 19, 2012 — Scientists have pinpointed a key factor controlling damage to brain cells in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease. The discovery could lead to new targets for Parkinson's that may be useful in ... > full story -
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Parkinson's Disease Protein Causes Disease Spread and Neuron Death in Healthy Animals
November 15, 2012 — Understanding how any disease progresses is one of the first and most important steps towards finding treatments to stop it. This has been the case for such brain-degenerating conditions as ... > full story
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