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One of the challenges of diagnosing diseases is identifying them early. At this stage, signs may be vague or confusing, or difficult to identify. Early diagnosis is often tied to …read more Continue reading App Detects Parkinsons Disease and COVID-19 Via Audio
Implants that regulate electrical activity in the brain have been used to treat Parkinson’s symptoms for decades, and lately we’re seeing how they might do so much more. A new design could greatly improve the experience of living with these devices, by using integrated triboelectric generators to convert a user’s breathing movements into electricity.
Tags: Deep Brain Stimulation, Brain stimulation, Brain, University of Connecticut, Parkinson’s Disease
Continue reading Brain stimulator implant powers itself through breathing
The progression of Parkinson’s is characterized by a deterioration in motor control, and researchers are beginning to explore how this might be monitored via a person’s walking patterns. A new MIT system aims to bring this into the home, wirelessly tracking a patient’s gait to offer evaluations of Parkinson’s severity with a new level of precision.
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Continue reading MIT’s at-home gait monitor wirelessly tracks progression of Parkinson’s
Parkinson’s disease affects millions of people all over the world. The degenerative condition causes characteristic tremors, trouble walking, and often comes with complications including dementia, depression, and anxiety. One of …read more Continue reading New Parkinson’s Test Smells Success
A hormone believed to be released by muscles during exercise has been found to reduce levels of a toxic protein associated with Parkinson’s disease. The promising animal studies indicate future therapies could be developed based on the way this hormone improves brain health.
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Tags: Parkinson’s Disease, Dementia, Exercise, Hormone, Neurological, Brain, John Hopkins University
Continue reading Hormone secreted when exercising halts Parkinson’s decline in mice
A compelling new study indicates Parkinson’s disease (PD) could be diagnosed by remotely tracking a person’s breathing patterns. Led by researchers from MIT, the study presents an AI system that uses radio waves to monitor breathing while a person sleeps.
Category: Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle
Tags: Parkinson’s Disease, Diagnosis, Sleeping, Sleep, Breathing, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Network, MIT
Continue reading AI detects Parkinson’s disease by tracking your breathing patterns
A new research letter published in the journal JAMA Neurology has reported some dietary supplements can contain extraordinarily high levels of a molecule called levodopa, which is often used in drug treatments for Parkinson’s disease. The research found volumes of levodopa in some supplements dramatically vary from nearly nothing to, in some instances, higher levels than commonly prescribed in pharmaceutical formulations.
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Tags: Drugs, Parkinson’s Disease
Continue reading High levels of Parkinson’s drug levodopa found in natural supplements
Clumps of misfolded proteins that gather in the brain have been linked to neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s. Now, newly identified nanobodies show promise in destabilizing the structure of these clumps, potentially leading to new treatments for the disease.
Tags: Parkinson’s Disease, Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins Medicine, University of Michigan, Protein, Brain, antibodies
Continue reading Nanobody treatment could help clear brain protein clumps in Parkinson’s
It is thought that Parkinson’s disease takes hold in the brain long before obvious motor symptoms appear, and a big focus for researchers is the development of diagnostic tools that can detect it early on. Scientists in Israel have demonstrated a promising new technology in this space, using a variation of MRI to spot tiny, telltale structures forming deep in the brain as the disease progresses.
Tags: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Parkinson’s Disease, Brain, Dementia, MRI, Medical Imaging, Neurological
Continue reading Modified MRI spies the early signs of Parkinson’s disease
New research presented recently at the European Academy of Neurology Congress in Vienna has found an increased risk of several neurological disorders in patients following a bout of COVID-19. The study found the risk of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and stroke all increased in COVID-positive subjects compared to those uninfected.
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Tags: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Virus, Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Neurological, Brain, Inflammatory
Continue reading COVID-19 increases risk of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s & stroke, study finds