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The disease that causes tremors, rigidity and slowed movements in a million Americans also targets another brain network that regulates cognitive thought and the ability to carry out everyday tasks. David Eidelberg, MD, head of the Center for Neuro ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2007 - 5:21pm - 0 attachments

Older adults who have difficulty identifying common odors may have a greater risk of developing problems with thinking, learning and memory, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. Mild cognitive impairment—or a de ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 3 2007 - 2:56pm - 0 attachments

Chemists from UCLA and the University of Florence in Italy may have solved an important mystery about a protein that plays a key role in a particular form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, a progressive, fatal n ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2007 - 10:16pm - 0 attachments

Primates with severe Parkinson’s disease were able to walk, move, and eat better, and had diminished tremors after being injected with human neural stem cells, a research team from Yale, Harvard, the University of Colorado, and the Burnham Institute rep ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2007 - 1:08pm - 0 attachments

Parkinson disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disease characterized by the selective loss of midbrain dopaminergic neurons. Although the cause of PD is unknown, pathological analyses have suggested the involvement of oxidative stress and mit ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2007 - 1:07pm - 0 attachments

In a new, large-scale, prospective study exploring the link between levels of urate in the blood and risk of Parkinson’s disease, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found that high levels of urate are strongly associated wi ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2007 - 1:04pm - 0 attachments

Researchers at the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MGH-MIND) have identified a potential new drug target for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and possibly for other degenerative neurological disorders. The investigators hav ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2007 - 11:15am - 0 attachments

More good news for coffee is making the "it" drink for 2007. People who drink coffee are less likely to develop an involuntary eye spasm called primary late onset blepharospasm, which makes them blink uncontrollably and can leave them effectively ‘b ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2007 - 6:41pm - 0 attachments

A new Mayo Clinic study provides evidence that DNA variations largely explain why some persons get Parkinson’s disease while others don’t, and even predict with great accuracy at what age people might develop their first symptoms. “This represents ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 15 2007 - 12:41am - 0 attachments

... inhibitors in animal models for diseases such as Parkinson's and Huntington's disease, and even stroke." Stroke can cause ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2007 - 8:14pm - 0 attachments