At this time, there is no cure for Parkinson's disease. But there are several types of medicines that can control the symptoms and make the disease easier to live with. You may not even need treatment if your symptoms are mild. Your doctor may wait to prescribe medicines until your ...
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Many of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease can therefore be understood in terms of a catastrophic loss of habits, which means patients have to rely on the goal-directed control system for everything they do. This idea can explain why their movements are slow, effortful and easily interrupted...
aDevelopment of Parkinson's medications continues to evolve. The most recent line of drugs is known as COMT inhibitors, and they work alongside other Parkinson's medications to control symptoms. While research continues to find a cure for Parkinson's Disease, none has been found so far. 正在翻...
Although the disease process is the same, the manifestations are so different for each sufferer.“I have a friend with Parkinson’s I talk to every week that always tells me, ‘If you’ve met one person with Parkinson’s, then you’ve met one person with Parkinson’s,’” says Gray. ...
Despite 30 years of research, not a single therapy has been found to successfully delay or stop the progression of Parkinson's disease (PD). In the Journal of Parkinson's Disease scientists report on the possibility of using a multi-arm, multi-stage (MAM
April is Parkinson’s Disease Awareness month, and on this episode of Managed Care Cast, we take a look at the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI), a study from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF). The multicenter, international study aims to end ...
BEIJING, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have tested a stem cell-based strategy to cure Parkinson's disease on primate models, providing strong support for carrying out related clinical research. Parkinson's disease is one of the leading neural degenerative disorders, which is primarily cau...
No one here would argue, at a panel of men and women taking part in a Fox Foundation online database called Fox Insight, where patients join researchers in the quest for breakthroughs. Typically a late-in-life disease, only 1 in 10 develops "early onset" Parkinson's like F...