In a recent study published in Progress in Neurobiology, researchers discover that the substantia nigra of individuals with Parkinson’s disease had a higher concentration of pheomelanin, as well as ...

Lindberg had Parkinson’s disease, the neurologist said, with all the classic symptoms. PD—as the scientists she would meet ...

In almost 70 years, our understanding of how Parkinson’s disease wreaks havoc on the nervous system has grown tremendously. Advances in genetic sequencing, for instance, have revealed that up to 15 ...

Researchers have discovered how a cell surface protein called Aplp1 can play a role in spreading material responsible for Parkinson's disease from cell-to-cell in the brain. In a paper published last ...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is an age-related, progressive, neurodegenerative condition, caused by loss of dopamine-producing ...

Devastating neurological diseases leave behind biological clues in the body. Like Sherlock Holmes, scientists identify and trace these clues back to the disorder in order to paint a more complete ...

A team of neuroscientists in Australia has found that restoring copper levels in the brain dramatically reduced Parkinson-like damage in mice. The approach restored a protein’s function, and the same ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Olatec Therapeutics, Inc. (Olatec), a leader in the developing class of selective NLRP3 inhibitors, today announced that Cure Parkinson’s granted an award to initiate a ...