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Drug Improves Tremors, Involuntary Movements In Parkinson Patients
January 2, 2007 — A drug used to treat epilepsy has been found to significantly improve tremors, motor fluctuations and other involuntary movements, or dyskinesias, in patients with Parkinson disease, according to a ... > full story -
Higher Occurrence Of Parkinson's Linked To Low LDL Cholesterol
December 19, 2006 — People with low levels of LDL cholesterol are more likely to have Parkinson's disease than people with high LDL levels, according to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ... > full story -
Transplanted Brain Cells Hold Promise For Parkinson's Disease
December 4, 2006 — Transplanted neural stem cells hold promise for reducing the destruction of dopaminergic cells that occurs in Parkinson's disease and for replacing cells lost to the disease, scientists ... > full story -
Parkinson's Approach With Stem Cells A Promising First Step
December 1, 2006 — Brain cells derived from human embryonic stem cells improved the condition of rats with Parkinson's-like symptoms dramatically, but the treatment caused a significant problem -- the appearance of ... > full story -
Parkinson Disease Can Lead To Errors On Driving Test
November 28, 2006 — People with Parkinson disease were more likely to make more safety mistakes during a driving test than people with no neurological disorders, according to a study published in the Nov. 28, 2006, ... > full story -
Insight Into Dopamine Role Suggests New Treatment Pathway For Parkinson's
October 18, 2006 — Dopamine (DA) not only functions as a neurotransmitter, a chemical messenger between neurons by which one neuron triggers another, researchers have found. It also appears to coordinate the activity ... > full story -
'Ecstasy' Linked To Survival Of Key Movement-Related Cells In Brain
October 18, 2006 — New research from the University of Cincinnati suggests that the widely abused club drug "ecstasy," or MDMA, can increase the survival of dopamine cells in the brain during fetal development. Because ... > full story -
Synchronous Neuronal Firing May Underlie Parkinson's Disease
October 18, 2006 — In a finding that contradicts current theories behind Parkinson's disease, neuroscientists at Duke University Medical Center have discovered in mice that critical nerve cells fire all at the same ... > full story -
Gene Therapy Appears To Reduce Symptoms Of Parkinson's By 40 Percent
October 17, 2006 — A gene therapy product in development for the treatment of Parkinson's disease has been found to be well tolerated and appeared to reduce symptoms by approximately 40 ... > full story -
Dopamine Imbalances Cause Sleep Disorders In Animal Models Of Parkinson's Disease And Schizophrenia
October 12, 2006 — Neuroscientists at Duke University Medical Center working with genetically engineered mice have found that the brain chemical dopamine plays a critical role in regulating sleep and brain activity ... > full story
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